Great start to a brand new generation and trilogy!

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2015)

This review has spoilers. The seventh installment of the Star Wars saga hits the familiar notes of a lost survivor who encounters a droid with pertinent information, in this case a map. The whole story surrounds the search for Luke Skywalker and the cute little rolling droid BB-8 possesses the map given to him by Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron who receives it from a mysterious character played by Max Von Syndow. The first scene gets rolling with laser fights and the force, at least the darkside, used by the masked Kylo Ren. We also see a reluctant stormtrooper.
The look feels very new and instead of the male lead, it is Daisy Ridley's Rae. She bounces around a crash Star Destroyer left over from an old Empire versus the Rebellion battle. Rae is waiting for something but we never find out what. This mystery is saved for later installments and thousands of fan theories. Since I know their will definitely be sequels, it doesn't bother me much that they saved some mystery.
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