Star Wars: Episode VII "The Force Awakens" (Movie Review)

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2015)

There were three aspects of this film that were completely average; it's score, it's cinematography, and it's editing. Because these things aren't giving or taking points from its grade I'm not going to talk about them to much. One thing I really hate about a lot of modern films is that they're treated like radio shows. 60% of human communication is nonverbal this means only 40% of what humans comprehend is actually said. Radio shows had to explain everything with dialog because the audience couldn't see what was happening which means the 60% of nonverbal communication was non existent. When it comes to film however when a director is portraying emotion 60% of what is being felt should be showed and not sad. Think about it, when a person is sad they don't just say "Oh, man I'm so sad," they portray with body language and other action. This movie like many others completely disregards that 60% that should be nonverbal and only uses dialog to tell the story, show how the characters feel, and tell the audience what they think. This is lazy writing and is therefore costing this movie one point.
This movie made up for it's poor writing with it's beautiful visual effects. The set design for this movie was beautiful. The design of the Jakku was vast, desolate, and perfectly showed the world the characters were living in. Along with the planets themselves the buildings and ships we find our characters in are nothing but extraordinary. This movie also blended it's real effects with it's C.G.I almost perfectly. Besides one or two parts where it's obvious C.G.I is being used most of the computer generated images are flawless and for the visual effects this movie gains a point.
For the most part I wasn't impressed by the acting in this film. However; I believe that Domhnall Gleeson who played General Hux and Adam Driver who played Kylo Ren gave two very convincing performances and probably were the two best characters in the movie if not the trilogy. For the performance and well roundedness of these two characters the movie gains one more point. Kylo Ren is, in my opinion, one of the most human characters in Star Wars. Most people can relate to his overall feeling to be accepted and live up to the reputation that he's been given, and he's the only person I've ever seen throw a temper tantrum with a lightsabre which feels like something most people would do.
My final grade for Star Wars: Episode VII is a 6/10. Even with it's flaws I had a lot of fun watching this movie and will probably buy it and the rest of the trilogy so my friends and I can no life Star Wars every now and then.