Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force
Awakens is the 7th film in the saga and the 7th in
production. This was the first Star Wars film I saw in theaters. Yes, shame on
me. Sacrifice me to The Force.
The film begins with Poe Dameron
talking to elderly man on the Jakku system when BB-8 warns that the First Order
(Former Empire) has arrived. Poe gives BB-8 a weird artifact and tells him to
get out of there before something bad happens. Enter Kylo Ren and his
Stormtroopers, they capture Poe and we meet FN-2187 (dubbed Finn by Poe). Finn
helps Poe escape and get back to Jakku so they can deliver BB-8 to the
Resistance (former Rebel Alliance). This doesn’t go as planned. Enter Rey, a female
scavenger on Jakku. She finds BB-8 and Finn as well. The First Order finds them
and they end up on Han Solo’s stolen ship, The Millenium Falcon. Then, after
they make it off Jakku, they’re boarded by Han and Chewbacca, who ultimately
agree to help them get BB-8 to the Resistance. Eventually, they end up on
Starkiller Base (Ultra-Mega-Über Death Star) where Han confronts Kylo Ren (his
son, Ben Solo) and is killed. Then there’s a bunch of Lightsaber battling and
Starkiller Base blows up. Turns out, BB-8 had the last piece of the map to find
Luke Skywalker (He’s been hiding for a long time). Rey finds him and the film
is over.
Moral: This is basically a rehashing
of A New Hope and Phantom Menace, kind of (without Jar-Jar!).
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