3. First Order Versus The Rebels – What The Heck Is Going On?
J.J. Abrams does a good job of introducing characters in this film, but their execution leaves a lot to be lacking. With regard to the two great forces in this movie about to collide, it all seems so narrow. Abrams fails to build the scope of the new Darkside led by the First Order or really establish the Resistance/Rebels all too well. One thing George Lucas always did a very good job of was identifying the scope and magnitude of the players involved. When you saw evil, you sensed they were big, imposing and unbeatable. When you saw the Rebels, you sensed they were smaller and a mobile unit of sporadic fighters trying to rise up against the evil. It was classic David vs Goliath. But here, one scene is tossed in (our Nazi/1942 rip off) to show a random speech given to Stormtroopers and there is a shot of the old Death Star versus the First Order’s new weaponry.
Honestly, watching planets explode left and right throughout the galaxy would have been a lot more believable and intense had we had some context and a better scope of what the evil truly was. The storytelling is fast and weak here and has little definition to help build our suspense up. Even the final lightsaber fight between Rey and Kylo Ren is forced. She seems more Jedi than he is. There is little in the way of suspense and she basically kicks his ass.
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