My thoughts on Star Wars VII- The Force Awakens.

Over the weekend, it was 40 over degrees in Melbourne so most people hid away from the heat by staying indoors in a cooling shopping malls. I booked my movie ticket a week before the release of the movie at Eastland Hoyts. To my surprise the seats were all new and revamped! I love it! They were recliner chairs and the seats were massive and each one comes with a cup holder. Love it! For the price I've paid it's like sitting in Gold Class cinemas.

Well of all the Star Wars movies...I think the 7th episode wasn't to much of my liking. Most characters ...I mean the original characters were mostly just cameos or gone! The movie opens whereby Storm Troopers under the commander of new evilbie Kylo Ren destroys the village and pilot Pou sends his droid BB8 with a USB chip containing the whereabouts of the last Jedi knight Luke Skywalker. BB8 escapes and runs into a scavenger Rey who took him in. Surprisingly one of the troopie Finn escaped from First Order together with Pou. At first Finn thought Pou died in a plane crash and wondered around until he found Rey and BB8.

The two were hunted tremendously and they flew the Falcon which was formerly a junk but bumped into Han Solo and Chewy. All Finn wants to do is escape and hide from the First Order. Han meets Princess Leia (now she's called The General) who is actively fighting the evil people. Leia wants to ensure their son Kylo returns to their side. It was far too long they lost their son to the dark side. Kylo looks up to the late Darth Vader and vows to finish whatever he has done. However he has fiery temper and he is afraid to lose. Kylo and Troopers managed to kidnap Rey back. They wanted to know where Luke is since the map was only shown to droid BB8. Leia brought along C-3PO and the inactive R2D2. 

As the good people battle against the evil, we see that Rey has an extraordinary power in her. She could resist anything and even use the force to control people. Kylo is surprised to see she is so strong. The battle between Kylo and Rey was good seeing she is new and hasn't use a light sabre. In fact the sabre she held once belongs to Luke and his father.
Fight---fight and somehow baddie dies and Rey runs away to the wounded Finn. She finds the deserted island where Luke was hiding and handed the original lightsabre to him. 

Spoilers: No more Han Solo in future episode. He's dead for good. Everyone mourns his death especially Chewy. Now that Han is no longer around, the next pilot to Chewy is Rey.

Kylo Ren isn't that tough baddie as he is...to be honest he wasn't so strong and his skills were still weak compared to the other Darths trained by the late Emperor. It'd be better if he doesn't remove his mask at all. Nothing beats the badass Vader. We miss him!

Luke Skywalker has aged so much that he looks like a slight bigger version of Yoda. Everyone has gone so old and doesn't seem to impress me anymore with soooo few Jedi's.
The light sabre duels were too short. It was more of fighting planes flying around.

The new Supreme Leader Snoke is some hologram like been projected by a projector. He looks similar to a cross version of Voldermort. Besides it's Andy Serkis who plays Gollum in LOTRings sequel playing as Snoke... no wonder Snoke's got that Gollum look. Hahah! 

The Good!: The droids in this episode are adorable. BB8 is the latest mania in Star Wars fans. He's like a rollable ball with antenna. He's built by the pilot Pou and he joins the original robots- R2D2 and C-3PO. R2D2 didn't have much appearance until the very last bit in detecting the map and where Luke Skywalker is. 

John Boyega and Daisy Ridley did well as newcomers in this installment. Though they are new to the fans, but they pulled their roles very well. 

Rating: 7/10
Well one final word to say- May the Force Be With Us...  (lol!)