![]() Now we're ready for The Rise of Skywalker to end the saga in style. Thanks to The Force Awakens, the lightsaber was well and truly passed. The absence of Luke Skywalker is a masterstroke of restraint compared to the prequels' obsession with continuity, and the film more than earns its momentous meeting between Luke and Rey. But as a foundation to a new saga, balancing and combining old and new, it's deftly done. If only there could have been more of that in the last half hour and less regurgitating Return of the Jedi.Īs a standalone film, The Force Awakens has its problems. To see such distance between Han and Leia, one of cinema's greatest couples, is heart-wrenching. She rescues the astromech droid BB-8 and encounters Finn ( John Boyega ), a former stormtrooper. Watch this: Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker trailer tees up saga's culminationįor all the great new stuff in The Force Awakens, the biggest emotional punch comes from the reunion of Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. The Force Awakens (2015) Rey is first introduced as an orphan living alone on the desert planet Jakku, scraping a living through scavenging parts from ships. While you wait for the newest movie to come out on Blu-ray, why not binge watch all of the other six Star. In Awakens, we're told the Starkiller is meant to be vastly destructive, but its use packs none of the emotional punch of the moment Leia is forced to watch the destruction of her home world in A New Hope. Australian entertainment retailer JB Hi-Fi is also offering the Blu-ray of Star Wars: The Force Awakens for pre-order, and includes a ship date of April 20, although that is, so far, unconfirmed as a release date. So we get a sense that as Luke Skywalker enters a wider universe and learns to harness the Force his journey is building directly to the moment when he must prove himself by facing the Death Star. ![]() We see it throughout the film, we witness its awesome power, and as a result the terrifying threat looms over the whole film. (Just try not to roll your eyes.) Look at A New Hope, where the ominous-sounding Death Star is named in the opening text - in CAPITAL LETTERS, no less. We're shown that Starkiller Base is like the Death Star, only way bigger, in a cringeworthy introduction. Take the way characters both wield lightsabers and shrug off being hit by the blade, which blunts the power of the supposedly legendary Jedi weapon.īut that's just a tiny complaint compared to Starkiller Base, the most egregious retread from previous films. The climax in particular has huge problems. Both Ewan McGregor and Alec Guinness appear: Obi-Wan tells her, Rey these are your first steps. Not everything in Force Awakens works as well as the new characters. Obi-Wan appears ever-so-briefly in The Force Awakens, courtesy of Rey’s flashback. Kylo Ren, played by Adam Driver, in The Last Jedi Lucasfilm
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