It's no shooting 'Star'

Rating: 5/10 (17 December 2015)

STAR Wars: The Force Awakens is neither bad nor good. The film introduces a new cast of characters
and smartly retains the old cast of Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. There's enough time for the old and new ones to shine.
I liked the fact that director J.J. Abrams chose a multicultural line-up of actors to spearhead the seventh instalment of this franchise.
It's nice to see a strong white female upending a bunch of males and showing them that she's got the panache and style to be the face of the new Star Wars.
Abrams delivered a coup by picking unknown British actress Daisy Ridley as his lead, Rey, a scavenger who lives from day to day but knows how to take out male fighters in hand-to-hand combat, fly spaceships such as the Millennium Falcon and show the first blush of love with another British newcomer John Boyega.
Rey exhibits single-mindedness in her daily tasks yet maintains a youthful ardor and innocence. Watching her in action of simply watching her gaze into the distance is pure bliss. She, like Luke Skywalker (Hamill), doesn't have a family but she says that she's waiting for them to return.
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