Harrison Ford is reliably smart-assed as Han Solo, even to the point of voicing the audience’s skepticism that the Resistance’s plan for defeating the First Order’s Starkiller Base is basically the same thing the Rebels do all the time. And they're monsters.Ībrams and Kasdan-credited as co-writers, with original screenwriter Michael Arndt on story-play the hits, and they do it with a practiced hand. Stormtroopers are no longer clones they’re brainwashed human. This is a Star Wars with blood and guts and pain, of villages massacred and children abandoned. And the sabers aren’t for show, for cauterized wounds and sterile zaps they wound.
Kylo Ren’s quillon-equipped lightsaber spits and hisses red, and somehow, magically, the very first lightsaber any of us ever saw-the one Luke Skywalker’s mysterious father wanted him to have when he was old enough, according to old Ben Kenobi-lights up blue for a new wielder. Every new planet, and I lost count of how many the movie has, looks like a real place that you could visit if your hyperdrive was working. The aliens, puppet and computer-generated, are convincing, and blissfully free of coded, noxious ethnic stereotypes. The Millennium Falcon rides again, in full daylight, looping and swirling so close to the ground it kisses the landscape, and occasionally plows through it. The camera loops and whirls alongside the fighters the good guys are here at last. Han looks up, with that same Han half-smile that marked just about everything he said 35 years ago, and says: “The Resistance!” It’s a squadron of X-wings, ace pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) in the lead, and they slam into the stormtroopers and the TIE fighters. Shapes emerge from clouds, skimming fast across the water. It’s hopeless.īut then, from across a misty lake: a noise. Rey (Daisy Ridley) is on the run, while her newfound allies Finn (John Boyega), Han Solo (come on), and Chewbacca try to hold off First Order ground troops. A new, even more raucous version of the Cantina from A New Hope (with music by Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda and better puppets) is going up in smoke. The evil First Order, a sleeker version of the Empire, has found our heroes, and TIE fighters are air-striking a beautiful temple on a beautiful planet into dust. Read at your own risk.Ībout two thirds of the way through Star Wars: The Force Awakens, all seems lost.
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