The first adventure movie of the decade, with some great acting.

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2015)

Some of the pacing of the first 45 minutes of Star Wars The Force Awakens was horrible, i'll give you that. Meticulously cut 3-minute long segments of action and a more slow dialogue scenes. But boy does it get better. After i left the theater i was in awe; none of the faults mattered, because the movie as a whole was so pleasurable. It didn't necessarily "feel like Star Wars". But does it mean the movie was not good? No. I thought Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith "felt like Star Wars". Did i enjoy those movies? Not too much. So what does it all mean? Well, i think we've started to associate Star Wars with certain motifs, such as the music, the clothes the characters wear, the cinematography etc. and we must acknowledge the fact, that Mr. George Lucas has been somehow involved in the making of the previous films and that fact has brought a certain confidence and a sense of security into watching Star Wars movies, even those that are bad. I believe that George Lucas was and still is, the only person who has the right to make bad Star Wars movies, without them fading into obscurity. Many people loved the prequel movies just for the sake of the original ones. If someone else had decided to direct Star Wars Episodes 1-3 and they'd have turned out bad, instead of disagreeing with the films like people do now, everyone would have just endlessly hated them. There would have been riots and after Phantom Menace, there would've been no more Star Wars. But because it was George Lucas, who gave some of us the best moments of our collective childhoods, we took the new films and embraced them. But now was the time for George to step aside and let the new directors take the Star Wars franchise to another level.
Basically, The Force Awakens is The Ultimate Fan Fiction Movie. It's a true sequel to the Star Wars movies, the sequel that everyone has been waiting for since the year 1983. It's fun, it's thrilling, it's a ride. It's everything we have missed in movies for so long. The sense of adventure, themes of innocence, innocent love and friendship, not knowing what is going to happen next, traveling through the galaxy in the Millennium Falcon. It's not a rehash of the New Hope like many people say, it's a rehash of all the six movies. It's taking the best out of all the previous films, putting them together and bringing them to the present day. The reason i said this movie didn't feel like Star Wars was that it didn't feel like the old Star Wars, the Star Wars as we all know it. It was something new, something fresh, maybe we'll just call it The New Star Wars. For those who weren't there to witness the first Star Wars craze of the 70's, this is for them. This is for those, who know the original Star Wars films, but weren't able to see them on the big screen, those who were born in the late 70's all the way to those born in the late 90's.
And the cast deserves praise too, especially Daisy Ridley, who plays the main heroine Rey, a scavenger from the Tatooine-like desert planet Jakku. Rey is by far the most human main character in the whole Star Wars saga. Wonderful acting by Daisy Ridley make Rey an instant favourite for myself and hopefully for many others. I very rarely say this about actors or actresses in blockbuster action movies, but i honestly think that Daisy Ridley should win the Academy Award for the best Actress in a leading role for this. Not too much to say about the rest of the cast, but naturally, they were great. Harrison Ford does a great job as the aged Han Solo.
And to conclude my review/rant, i must say that you should definitely see this, by yourself, with your friends, your kids, your mother, your grandfather, Jar Jar Binks, you choose. I sure as hell enjoyed it and isn't that what going to the movies is really about? It was an emotional roller-coaster, a "bang for your buck".
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) Director : J.J. Abrams Cast: Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac Music: John Williams
RATING : ****/****