Wow!

That’s all you can say about Star Wars, part 14, The Empire… becomes empirical? Eats people?? Does something dastardly against furry creatures??? Whatever they call it, the latest Star Wars movie is simply brilliant. I loved it. I lived it. I hadn’t been in an x-fighter jet since 1973 but, like riding a bike (I fall off a lot), it just came back to me as The Force surged through my veins, my bones, my very entity.

The gel, Ray, is more than a little Keira Knighly in appearance, and like her lookalike, she’s not much of an actress, having no expression in between sunshine smile and frowning grimace. But who cares. She’s not there to act, just to run around in front of explosions. Which she does really well. Everyone else in the movie is great. And its funny. Its wry. It has the quick wit of the original and half the cast of that too.

Princess Leia returns, with a re-built Carrie Fisher looking not quite as in control of her facial movements, nor her girth, as she was 40 years ago. Quel surprise. Harrison Ford was a slower, quieter Hans Solo and only went on one run, and not for very far and he didn’t exactly do it like Mo Farrah. But he tried.

Its inevitably very action-packed and exciting. In fact its bloody wonderful. Illogical, nonsensical, but you’re not there to look that deep. Its a feelgood movie with a happy ending. Not in that way. Yet it also leaves everything open for part 2 of the next trilogy. Or part 8 of the series. Or when the Empire does something else.

Who cares what they do, long as they do it that well.

Off to another (frikkin) airport soon. Home in time for tennis tomorrow.

Happy… yeah, right

A xxxx