The Force Awakens is energetic but shallow, establishing new protagonists without developing arcs. The plot is busy with exposition, rehashes, and fan service. Its villain has interesting internal conflicts. There's clunky humor, coincidences, forced relationships, plot holes, tropes, tragedy, adventure, and mediocre payoff. It has excessive characters, superficial world-building, convoluted detours, simplistic obstacles, flimsy MacGuffins, and thin emotional investment. The acting adds charisma, relatability, chemistry, and farcical tones. Thus, The Force Awakens moves quickly and competently but loses steam because it's more committed to entertainment gimmicks than thorough drama.
The Force Awakens brings motivated polish and sanitized tones. The kinetic imagery offers motion, lighting, framing, focus, and angles. Its music blends classics with new motifs, yet its impact is limited. The production design is tangible and grand, but its cleanness is overly commercial. Its cast is talented, fitting, deep, diverse, and famous. The effects combine CGI, animatronics, stunts, pyrotechnics, prosthetics, and puppets. Its sound uses genre, intimacy, distortions, stings, symbolism, split cuts, and iconography. The editing adds cross cuts, action, wipes, jump cuts, slo-mo, match cuts, and rushed pacing. Overall, The Force Awakens has skilled style with minimal substance.
Writing: 5/10
Direction: 8/10
Cinematography: 8/10
Acting: 7/10
Editing: 7/10
Sound: 10/10
Score/Soundtrack: 8/10
Production Design: 8/10
Casting: 10/10
Effects: 10/10
Overall Score: 8.1/10
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