Why don’t I love it more? Why did The Force Awakens make almost no lasting impression on me? I smiled and laughed through much of the film. In fact, Han himself - a grizzled Harrison Ford reprising arguably his most celebrated role - finally sets the record straight regarding the Force and the Jedi. Visually, Abrams continues to indulge an idea he has explored before, that spaceships are more interesting when they aren’t in space, but on or near the surfaces of planets.Ībrams and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan ( The Empire Strikes Back) also bring back a sense of prior history and continuity, invoked in old Ben Kenobi’s references to “a more civilized age” and Han Solo’s glib remarks about the strange things he’d seen flying from one end of the galaxy to the other. The best action scenes aren’t just rousing, like the climactic lightsaber duel in The Phantom Menace, but fun, like the rescue of Leia in the original Star Wars, a.k.a. The casual banter and humor of the original trilogy is back, and the mythology-bound, politics-heavy plotting of the prequels is gone. Not only does The Force Awakens feel like a Star Wars movie, it feels like one in all the ways that the prequels didn’t. From the opening pan, which demonstrates careful thought about the opening shots of every Star Wars film and how to do something in that tradition yet unique, there is no doubt that we’re in the hands of someone who takes Star Wars seriously. Abrams is a canny purveyor of nostalgia, as even his Star Trek reboot demonstrates - and while he was never a Trekkie, his devotion to Star Wars is true. It is a film made for Star Wars fans, by a filmmaker who knows what they want and how to deliver it.
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