10. The young lead actors are all excellent
Director JJ Abrams wanted fresh faces to front ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ alongside established stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. He chose well. Daisy Ridley, 23, is tough and determined as ‘young scavenger’ Rey. She is without doubt the film’s true lead – the character set up to be the heroine of the next installment, ‘Episode VIII’ (coming in 2017). Fellow young Brit John Boyega, playing a fleeing Stormtrooper, Finn (named after his Stormtrooper number, FN2187), is a worthy Rebel sidekick and doting admirer (smartly gender-flipping the glassy-eyed attraction Princess Leia felt for Han Solo in the first Star Wars film).