#Review #StarWarsTheForceAwakens hits the right notes. Homage to #ForceTenFromNavarone #nonspoilercommentary
JJ Abrams The Force Awakens hits the high notes. It begins aloft and never really falters. Some critics are calling BS on the nostalgia trip and the Starkiller remix plot. The homages extend not only to Star Wars A New Hope , and the original trilogy, but I could also not help recalling Raiders of the Lost Ark , and Force Ten From Navarone -- a great WWII dirty dozen style adventure featuring a young shiny Harrison Ford as the American Col. Barnsby. Aesthetically these films share paired down plots, archetypes, and storm troopers of either the Galactic of Nazi variety. Abrams shot a movie that is as good as what we remembered our favorite movies to be. It's magic. Don't be a hater. He's a stylist, one groomed on the Goonies, Indiana Jones, Superman , and Jaws . Grand summer cinema. In many ways the film celebrates Harrison Ford's legacy as a big screen action hero. He gets to do everything here, and with charm. Abrams film is a marriage of old school craft ...