Let me just say that they do it really well: Rey is feisty enough to banish thoughts of Katniss Everdeen from the most devoted Hunger Games enthusiast Finn is the sort of impetuous, can-do hero who will inspire a whole new generation of Star Warriors and when the old warriors arrive on the scene, well, just try not to tear up. I shouldn't - and won't - talk about what any of them do for the film's 135 minutes. He not only got the old gang back together - Han (Harrison Ford), Leia (Carrie Fisher), Luke (Mark Hamill) - but starting with an opening battle on a desert planet, he introduces a brace of new, young and (happily) diverse characters: resistance pilot Poe (Oscar Isaac) and his spherical droid BB-8 (sort of R2-D2 mated with a volleyball) new villain Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), who looks and sounds a lot like an old villain scrappy female scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley), who's also a pilot and Finn (John Boyega), a Stormtrooper gone AWOL who decides Rey needs protecting, whether she wants it or not.ĭaisy Ridley plays the scrappy scavenger Rey. I still believed - I'm guessing we all believed - that the magic could come back, and now director J.J. Thirty-eight years and sticking it out through three lackluster prequels hasn't dimmed the force of memory. The fanfare starts and we're all kids again, anyway. But all you really want to know is whether it's good, right? Well, in fact, it is better than it had to be. With bigger advance sales than any movie in history, Star Wars: The Force Awakens needs reviews like a Death Star needs a decorative fountain. Both Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) return in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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