The honeymoon for the Star Wars: The Force Awakens as critics and fans bash the new movie.
Disney’s Star Wars has made millions of dollars and along with merchandise the franchise is expected to make billions off of a single movie. But, it looks as though people are slowly turning their back on the Force Awakens.
The J.J. Abrams movie was praised by critics before having the biggest opening weekend of all time and the first movie to ever make $100 million dollars in a single day. But, according to reports, critics are slowly starting to argue that the movie was overrated and “unoriginal”.
“[The film] is not very good … it’s depressingly unimaginative and dull in long stretches, and — crucially — reproduces George Lucas‘ original 1977 movie slavishly almost to the point of plagiarism,” wrote Michael Hiltzik in the LA Times.
“We’ve been played,” argued Vice‘s Brian Merchant. “We’ve been served up a pretty unoriginal reboot that adds few, if any, new ideas to our greatest commercial mythology … and we’re lapping it up.”
And The Huffington Post recently wrote an expansive and exaggerated report on 40 plot holes of The Force Awakens. For example, (spoiler alert) “Rey becomes nearly as effective a Force-user in a few hours as Luke Skywalker did in a few years.”
Despite the criticism Star Wars: The Force Awakens has a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is listed as one of the top ten movies of the year.
