2015 · sci-fi · action · adventure
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Directed by J.J. Abrams2h 16m2015
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Our read: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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