New Star Wars Villains Not Evil Enough, Says Vatican Movie Critic

By Published on December 22, 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke box office records and restored a new hope in the franchise to the delight of fans worldwide with a few exceptions, including the Vatican’s newspaper.

Emilio Ranzato, author and frequent movie critic for L’Osservatore Romano, wrote last week that the first installment of the sequel trilogy was “confusing and vague,” but he reserved his harshest criticism for the film’s new villains.

In The Force Awakens, Ranzato wrote, “the counterpart of Darth Vader, Kylo Ren, wears a mask merely to emulate his predecessor, while the character who needs to substitute Emperor Palpatine as the incarnation of supreme evil represents the most serious defect of the film.”

Calling the original trilogy’s villains “the two most-efficient villains” in American science fiction cinema, Ranzato wrote that in comparison, Kylo Ren and his dark side mentor, Supreme Leader Snoke, failed “most spectacularly” in representing evil.

 

Read the article “New Star Wars Villains Not Evil Enough, Says Vatican Movie Critic” on catholicherald.co.uk.

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