Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Rating: 9/10 (28 January 2016)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens revitalizes everything brilliant about the Star Wars saga. It was beautiful, emotional, dark, action-packed, and above all else, it was fun. All the wonder and fantasy that was instilled in us way back with the original trilogy is all brought back here. The Force Awakens paves the way for bold things to come in this new trilogy and I can not be more excited about it all. Every character is bold and slightly old-school. But it is exactly what we need. Rey (Daisy Ridley) is an impossibly brilliant scavenger, Finn (John Boyega) is an ex- conscripted Storm Trooper, and Poe (Oscar Isaac) is the Resistance's top pilot, and together they usher in the new generation of Star Wars. With the help of some old faces, of course.
There is a lot that can be said about this film negatively, so let me just set the record straight. The Force Awakens is very reminiscent of past films, most notably, 'A New Hope'. However it does not hurt from this at all. Star Wars was never supposed to be a convoluted Sci-Fi drama with intense plot twists and turns. It's an old-school like fantasy tale with clear evil villains, and clear good heroes. That's it. The brilliance is in the characters and their journeys, not the actual, physical journey on screen, however important they are.
Star Wars bursts back onto the scene with this incredibly wonderful, enjoyable, and important installation to this beloved saga.