Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Film Review: 4.5 star for new Star Wars – NU.nl

This film year ends with a release that even reikhalzender to eagerly awaited – especially the fans – then the new James Bond movie Spectre , and that is obviously the new Star Wars The Force Awakens .

Over the past two years, any news about this Top Secret project unraveled on the Internet. Are all veterans (Han Solo, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, C3PO, R2D2) in it? What roles do the newbies? And can J.J. Abrams, the director of two Star Trek movies, or create a Star Wars -movie?

Each news (“Harrison Ford breaks leg at the within steps of the Millennium Falcon “) was an instant world. And once there appeared a teaser or trailer that was analyzed frame by frame. Even the often amusing reactions to the trailers were again put on Youtube, for lack of real news. The posters will be thoroughly investigated. Who is the masked Kylo Ren with his lightsaber in the shape of a cross? And why is Luke Skywalker actually on the poster

Watch the trailer:



Secret

This entertaining quest for clues was further reinforced by Abrams astonishingly managed virtually nothing about the story to leak out, a achievement in the internet age where firsts outweigh spoilers.

A big difference even with the release of The Phantom Menace in 1999. It was also at this prequel eagerly awaited, but when it was still possible that the Dutch release only four (!) months after the American premiere took place. That would be completely unthinkable.

This prequel was then bitterly against all wanted the fans did not believe. In NU.nl-review was then no more than two stars given to The Phantom Menace , “has the appearance of a giant screensaver”

This led to angry reactions from. Star Wars -fans, which only three years later in the sequel, Attack of the Clones , reluctantly admitted that Phantom Menace was not good, but Attack were indeed fantastic. Meanwhile, fans and Star Wars -haters agree that the three prequels from 1999-2005 can not stand in the shadow of the original trilogy from 1977-1983 and then but are best forgotten. The Force Awakens a sequel would be on that first trilogy made the anticipation even more.



Sophisticated mix

Now The Force Awakens then finally there can be concluded immediately that the high expectations are fulfilled by JJ Abrams, who has also received the blessing of Star Wars -bedenker George Lucas. Abrams has worked with include Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi , a story remembered that seamlessly connects to Return of the Jedi but a whole can stand on their own.

Continuing sit there in The Force Awakens enough references stopped to please the fans, but newcomers to the Star Wars galaxy! (yes, they are!) will have fun too it. Furthermore Abrams chose a sophisticated mix of veterans (Harrison Ford plays the sarcastic Han Solo as if he never left, Carrie Fischer is somewhat rougher as Princess Leia, meanwhile General Leia) and new faces. It is precisely these new characters to the story, which thirty years after The Return of the Jedi will play, launching

Rey & amp.; Finn

After the intro with the iconic yellow letters has reported that Luke Skywalker has gone, we immediately get the first confrontation between Evil ( The First Order, before The Empire ) and The Good, the Rebels. A brave pilot of the rebels, Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), knows a kind of USB stick with the location of Luke Skywalker to give the rolling robot BB-8.

Star Wars -fans will immediately think of A New Hope, , the first Star Wars film, which began with a similar action, but with Princess Leia and the droid R2D2 . And where then R2D2 was rescued by a young Luke Skywalker is this time the solitary scrap collector Rey (Daisy Ridley) who befriends the planet Jakku BB-8.

The militant Rey does not get much later help Finn (John Boyega), a former stormtrooper who deserted to fight on the side of the rebels. And so we are already within a quarter comeback in the familiar Star Wars galaxy! Well before Han Solo and his faithful companion Chewbacca show their faces again



Humor

It is very amazing that Abrams with so many new faces as soon as the atmosphere of the original trilogy knows to call . It was also a good move to build sets as much as possible instead of everything to add digital: the overdose of computer effects was one of the reasons that the prequel trilogy had the look of a screensaver

. And, last but not least: Abrams brings the humor back into the Star Wars galaxy!, without resorting to childish jokes, what Lucas sometimes did. Drama there is certainly in – and how! – But here Abrams knows how to maintain the fine balance

Minuses are also there.. Newcomer Daisy Ridley makes the militant Rey in virtually every scene raised, whether they collect scrap or preparing food. Day than on the time had its role given more depth. And Domhnall Gleeson plays the evil General Hux completely one-dimensional, as if he is in Starship Troopers

But this, however, only small smetjes an epic film adventure that houses high expectations completely lives up to -. And I do not say as Star Wars -fan. The fans can be very happy; though they will after seeing the The Force Awakens do again have to wait until May 2017 for Part VIII.

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By:! NU.nl/André Nientied

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