I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan and being a fan of the prequels as a kid didn't help when I watched them again being a grown up and finally saw how bad they really were... That said, I didn't really know what to expect with TFA - specially with J.J. Lensflare Abrams at the helm, but I was really surprised how good it was. Actually, I'm positive now that J.J. Abrams made Star Trek as a trolling project before making a serious movie with Star Wars :P. So, what's my feeling about it? Rey is now my favorite Star Wars character ever - even if the movie raise more questions than it answer. She is a powerful female lead that - IMHO - will likely surpass Leia during the new trilogy (Padme blew it up with the crap weak stuff supposed to be a love affair). On the other hand, Finn kind of disappointed me? Well, because that the movie tries to cramp up so much story in a short time he looks like a coward (for a StormTrooper, that is) that turn hero in about two scenes. Without spoiling anything, let's just say that he wasn't what I expected after seeing the trailers and pictures. No doubt that the mysterious Kylo Ren was the major surprise of the movie story and no crazy fan theories I saw was right about him. But then, looking back at the other Star Wars dark side users will make him somewhat predictable and unoriginal? One thing to be sure, this movie is the first of a trilogy, so you will have lot of questions at the end...
Score: 8/10
(one of too many death in this movie stuck me bad and worst, you will see it coming before it happen, that stupid lightsaber that everyone was debating for the whole year still bug me out and speaking of lightsaber, how the hell a expertly trained lightsaber user get beaten by a novice that never handled a lightsaber before?)
Review by Tommy CrosbyBlockedParent2015-12-23T07:55:08Z
I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan and being a fan of the prequels as a kid didn't help when I watched them again being a grown up and finally saw how bad they really were...
That said, I didn't really know what to expect with TFA - specially with J.J. Lensflare Abrams at the helm, but I was really surprised how good it was. Actually, I'm positive now that J.J. Abrams made Star Trek as a trolling project before making a serious movie with Star Wars :P.
So, what's my feeling about it?
Rey is now my favorite Star Wars character ever - even if the movie raise more questions than it answer. She is a powerful female lead that - IMHO - will likely surpass Leia during the new trilogy (Padme blew it up with the crap weak stuff supposed to be a love affair). On the other hand, Finn kind of disappointed me? Well, because that the movie tries to cramp up so much story in a short time he looks like a coward (for a StormTrooper, that is) that turn hero in about two scenes. Without spoiling anything, let's just say that he wasn't what I expected after seeing the trailers and pictures.
No doubt that the mysterious Kylo Ren was the major surprise of the movie story and no crazy fan theories I saw was right about him. But then, looking back at the other Star Wars dark side users will make him somewhat predictable and unoriginal?
One thing to be sure, this movie is the first of a trilogy, so you will have lot of questions at the end...