“ The Force Awakens reveals surprising connections, begins a few bromances, solves mysteries while digging up others, and sets a strong tone for what comes next in Star Wars lore.

Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens returns the iconic sci-fi franchise to a glorious place that hasn’t been seen since Ewoks danced off into victory in Return of the Jedi 32 years ago,” USA Today’s Brian Tuitt wrote in his 2015 review. “With a cast of entertaining new characters, heartfelt scenes, huge planetary battles and no qualms about being very funny or very dark at times, director J.J. In some ways, it’s firmly grounded in the familiar, but it also introduces some of the most likable and complex characters in the entire Star Wars canon. A frightened young stormtrooper becomes a deserter, a Resistance hero’s taken captive by a masked black knight with a crackling red blade, and a lonely scavenger discovers a droid containing information on the whereabouts of somebody called Luke Skywalker. This story starts off small, on the middle-of-nowhere desert planet Jakku. Right from the start, it also sets up some interesting new familial conflicts that-judging by what we’ve seen of Rise of Skywalker so far-play out across the entire sequel trilogy. Featuring a new cast of young heroes scrabbling for survival in a galaxy bereft of the Jedi Order, this film reunites some of the franchise’s classic characters to take down a superweapon even more terrifying than the Death Star.

Abrams ( Super 8), grossing more than $2 billion worldwide. A decade after George Lucas’s final Star Wars film, Revenge of the Sith, the Force returned to cinemas under the stewardship of J.J.

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