Moviejournal: star wars: the force awakens

This is a movie franchise started before most viewers are born, which is saying something heavy about the series. The tempo is really well controlled by the director so that we still get a very immersive sense of the film world and how character develops, albeit in a strictly star warish universe where good and evil are kinda clear cut and can be told by mere clothing colour alone… dark side is overly weak and shaky in this film, Solo’s son still lingers in the undecided and confused circa teen puberty phase of his darkness-development cycle. I mean if an force-ish cute chubby faced scavenger could muster enough girl force to beat you squarely in a light sabre duel, you’ve got dark side deficiency problems all around.

Also it’s very much like a remake of the New Hope initial star war film, with the familiar plot of budding force dude/dudette, cool spacecraft battle x wing vs ti fighter, baddies with simpleton syndrones bent on destroying world but failed due to some last minute dramatic bravado of the x wing pilot handsome dude. Dejavu all over again.

But as always with the blockbusters (well most of them), awesome acting and great music. Great cinetography. Not much wrong with this film and wealth and prosperity to come!