It may be one of the most hyped films of all time, but “Star Wars:
The Force Awakens” opened Wednesday to ecstatic reviews from both fans
and critics. Fans who had waited a decade for the next episode of the
space saga emerged from the first screenings in France and Scandinavia
clearly moved, with some even in tears.
“I was happy to see Luke Skywalker again,” cried Suzanne Sundsvall,
55, as she left a cinema in the centre of the Swedish capital
Stockholm. “I’ve lived with the character Han Solo since the first
movie, when I was 17. I even have a Han Solo car license plate.”
Others who had flown halfway around the world to see the film in Paris two days ahead of release in the United States, said it had been worth “every cent” of the cost. A smiling Tim Mersch, 44, from Las Vegas, who had spent “several thousands dollars” to see the film early, said it had breathed new life into the franchise.
“I just want to see the next one now,” he said. The first critical reactions were also overwhelmingly positive. “The Force Awakens re-awoke my love of the first movie and turned my inner fanboy into my outer fanboy,” wrote The Guardian’s critic Peter Bradshaw. “There are very few films which leave me facially exhausted after grinning for 135 minutes, but this is one.”
A
member of Malaysia’s Star Wars Fan Club dressed as Darth Maul (C)
attends a viewing of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at a cinema in
Subang, outside Kuala Lumpur on December 17, 2015. AFP PHOTO / MOHD
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Others who had flown halfway around the world to see the film in Paris two days ahead of release in the United States, said it had been worth “every cent” of the cost. A smiling Tim Mersch, 44, from Las Vegas, who had spent “several thousands dollars” to see the film early, said it had breathed new life into the franchise.
“I just want to see the next one now,” he said. The first critical reactions were also overwhelmingly positive. “The Force Awakens re-awoke my love of the first movie and turned my inner fanboy into my outer fanboy,” wrote The Guardian’s critic Peter Bradshaw. “There are very few films which leave me facially exhausted after grinning for 135 minutes, but this is one.”
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