A Vatican newspaper has published a scathing review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Abrams, drops the ball on sheer badness with a crop of unconvincing villains, the non-bylined review claims.
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Although getting mostly positive reviews, especially when compared to the much-maligned prequels, not every outlet has been impressed with new film: The Vatican newspaper – L’Osservatore Romano – called it “confused and hazy”.
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“The new director’s setup fails most spectacularly in its representation of evil, meaning the negative characters”, reads the non-bylined review, via Los Angeles Times.
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The anonymous critic writes that Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren merely tries to “emulate” Vader while Andy Serkis” Supreme Leader Snoke was the biggest “defect’.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the first movie in the series since Disney bought the franchise, and the first made without the oversight of George Lucas. Even though Pope Benedict did appoint the editor of the paper in 2007, the newspaper did have interesting reviews for many other films.
This is apparently missing from “The Force Awakens”, which is simply “a reboot designed for an audience more familiar with computer screens than the silver screen”.
For what it’s worth, Rotten Tomatoes has pegged the newest “Star Wars” iteration at a 95 percent approval rating, which is exceptionally high. For good measure it adds, “Not a classy reboot however, like Nolan’s Batman, but an update twisted to suit today’s tastes and a public more accustomed to sitting in front of a computer than in a cinema”.
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“[JJ Abrams’] direction is in fact modeled on the sloppiest current action films derived from the world of videogames”, said the daily. They even praise the Bond girls in 2012 release Skyfall! Ridley Scott’s “Exodus: Gods and Kings” got a similar treatment, for its special effects that add nothing new to the biblical story.
