Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens is finally upon us and I was lucky enough to watch it in the Philippines, where its premiered today at 5:01 PM local time on 12/16.
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SPOILERS BELOW.
A full caveat, I am not a film critic, and classify myself more of a casual movie goer who sees a new movie once a month. As this is a rushed post of the plot, there may be a few missed details or inaccuracies.
Opening scene, you see the planet of Jakku, along with
tie fighters from the first order.
The famous rebel pilot Poe Daemeron is sitting in a camp,
when it is attacked by the first order and a spectacular battle ensues. Poe
Daemeron knowing he is about to be captured goes and hides map of where Luke Skywalker
is within BB-8.
Finn is among those attacks in a stormtropper outfit. Kylo
Ren and his men surround the camp and find Poe Daemeron and demands to know
where the map is. Poe Daemeron refuses to divulge the information so Kylo Ren
uses the force to put him to sleep. He then orders the rest of the storm
troopers to kill everyone in the village. Finn refuses to shoot and has a
moment of consciousness.
When he gets back, he has a moment and takes off his helmet.
Captain Phasma orders her to put his helmet back on.
We are then introduced to Rey, who is a metal scavenger. She
sells the loot she finds for food rations, to a dealer.
We go back to the battleship where Poe Daemeron is kept
prisoner by Kylo Ren. Kylo Ren has an ability to read the mind and extracts
where Poe Daemeron hid the map. He then talks to the master overlord of the
first order and he orders Kylo Ren to find BB-8 and retrieve it.
In the meantime, Rey sees a Teedo, a neighborhood scrapper
with BB-8 and frees it. BB-8 decides to follow Rey into town.
Finn frees Poe Daemeron in exchange for Poe Daemeron to fly
one of the first orders tie fighters. They break into a tie fighter and attempt to
fly away. There is a restraining cable that stops them from doing so and they
come under attack. Eventually they get free, but the tie fighter is hit and falls
back to the planet and crashes.
Finn wakes up to find Poe gone, and the tie fighter is swallowed
up by the sinking sands.
In town the wholesaler offers Finn 60 portions of food for
the drone, she declines. The wholesaler orders his men to follow Rey and steal
the drone.
There BB-8 recognizes
Finn and Rey punches Finn thinking he is a thief. Rey then lies and says that
he is member of the resistance. At this point Kylo Ren and his men attack Jakku
looking for the drone.
Rey and Finn run to find a ship to escape, but their first
choice is destroyed. Instead they commandeer a “junk cargo ship” owned by the wholesaler.
They commandeer the ship and fend off tie fighters with a beautiful scenic battle
among the ruins and eventually escape into orbit.
There, they get locked down by another ship and get
transported into the hanger. Thinking it’s
the first order; they turn on poison gas and get ready. We then see Chewbacca
and Han Solo with the trademark we’re back.
Finn and Rey meet Han solo, and get to see what BB-8 is
carrying, an incomplete map of where Luke Skywalker is. Han tells Fin and Rey
that Skywalker started a new academy to start a new Jedi force, but one of his
apprentices turned to the dark side, and Skywalker has been missing ever since.
While they are talking they are interrupted by members of the Kanjiklub and
Guavian Gang who demand repayment. Finn and Rey hide underneath and decide to
trap the gang members by shutting the doors down. They push the wrong buttons
and as a result trophy beasts that Han Solo has locked up are released and eat members
of both gangs alive. One of the beasts grabs a hold of Finn and drags him to be
eaten. Rey shuts the door and the beast is trapped, saving Finn’s life.
In the meantime Kylo Ren tells the master overlord that the
prisoners have escaped and has a conversation with his grandfather, Darth Vader’s
mask.
Chewbacca, Han Solo, Finn, and Rey all head to the Millennium
Falcon, where escape and head to a green planet where Han Solo has a person
that can help them deliver the map of Luke Skywalker to the resistance forces.
Once there Han offers Finn a job to be his co-pilot, but she
declines wishing to go back home.
In the meantime, the first order has their new death star
ready and the master overlord fires at a resistance planet, destroying it completely.
This new death star draws power from stars and shoots four lasers to completely
eliminate planets, and is multiple times bigger than the original death star.
They head to a temple that has a bar inside, similar to the
cantina in previous star wars films. There they meet Han’s friend, a short alien
creature with glasses and a knack of looking deeply into someone’s eyes.
Once there, they are spotted and both the resistance and the
first order know where the drone BB-8 is and send forces to the planet.
Rey hears voices and finds Luke Skywalker’s light saber.
However, once she touches to grab it she sees her childhood along with Kylo
Ren. She falls down and Han Solo, Chewbacca, Finn, and the contact find her. They
tell her to grab the light saber but Ren runs into the woods. The contact then
gives the light saber to Finn.
The temple is quickly surrounded and they surrender. But not
before Finn kills a storm trooper with a lightsaber, the first time we see it
in battle.
Kylo Ren finds Rey and put the light saber to her head.
However, the resistance forces are spotted and Kylo Ren uses the force to knock
Rey unconscious and takes her aboard his ship. Meanwhile, Finn runs after the
fleeing ship and vows to get Rey back.
As the resistance forces land, General Leia appears and
engages in banter with Han Solo. They then fly to the resistance base headquarters,
filmed in the UK. Here we meet C3-PO and R2D2, who is not active. Leia then
asks Finn for his help, and he tells them there’s a weak spot in the new Death
Star, but first they need to disable the shields that guard the new Death Star,
which is so big it’s within a snowy planet.
As the rebel forces prepare to attack Leia and Solo embrace,
and quickly talk about Kylo Ren, their son. Han still believes his son can be
saved. Solo, Chewbacca, and Finn take the Millennium Falcon via hyperspace warp
drive to avoid detection by the first order. They get out of hyperspace right
before hitting the surface and crash land into the snowy planet. Solo asks what
Finn did while he was in the first order. He says in sanitation, and Solo gets
agitated that Finn lied to the resistance command. Finn says he has an idea.
In the meantime, Rey wakes up from her unconsciousness and
sees Kylo Ren. She taunts him and as a result he puts his mask down and reveals
his face. He then tries to read her mind like he did with Poe Daemeron.
However, she discovers the force and calls him a coward, forcing him back and
talk with his master overlord, who orders him to bring her to him.
Meanwhile Chewbacca, Solo,
and Finn sneak into the new death star and trap Captain Phasma and compel her
to lower the shields of the new death star. The resistance ships then attack, but
produce limited damage and are chased back into space by the first order
tie fighters.
Rey uses the force to compel a storm trooper to release her
from her restraints and leaves the room. Kylo Ren upon returning is furious and
vows to find her.
Solo, Chewbacca, and Finn eventually find Rey and they start
setting up explosives to damage the new death star and start plotting their
escape.
Solo eventually spots Kylo Ren and tries to convince his son
to turn away from the dark side. He walks over a bridge inside the death star,
unarmed to try and talk him out of the dark side, by saying Ren is just a mere
puppet who will be eliminated once the master gets what he wants. Ren turns
over his light saber to Solo, but then activates the lightsaber and kills Han
Solo, who falls from the bridge.
The rebel forces in the meantime spot the new explosion and
start attacking the weak points in the new death star.
Chewy is furious and injured Kylo Ren with a blaster. Rey
then leaves the command center and is confronted outside by Kylo Ren, who
throws her on a tree. Finn then confronts Kylo Ren using Luke’s light saber and
injures Kylo Ren before he gets injured himself. Rey then picks up the light
saber using the force and fights Kylo Ren. Kylo Ren then tells Rey to join him,
but she fights back and injures him severely.
As the rebel pilots are close to destroying the new death
star, the earth below cracks open and separate Kylo Rey and Ren apart.
Rey then takes Finn into the millennium falcon, and the head
back to the rebel headquarters where everyone celebrates.
Finn is put under medical care, and R2D2 “wakes up”,
allowing BB-8’s map piece of Luke Skywalker to be completed. Rey and Chewbacca then
head to an unknown planet filled with seawater and islands to find Luke. She
sees Luke Skywalker and holds out his light saber.
The Credits Roll.
Overall, I thought the movie was excellent. The plot was a bit thin, but that was to be expected. The romantic “tension” between Rey and Finn was at sometimes forced, but besides that the action scenes were all well done.
If your a fan of the old star wars movies, click here to view pictures from old Star Wars set locations in Tunisia, including Luke Skywalker’s home!
