A review of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” which appears in the Dec. 18 edition of the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, gives the film a thumbs-down because of evil characters who failed “spectacularly” in representing evil.

The Catholic News Service (CNS) is reporting on the review written by Emilio Ranzato, an author and frequent movie critic for L’Osservatore Romano who found the movie to be “confusing and vague” and called some of the computer generated imagery to be “the clumsiest and tackiest result you can obtain from computer graphics.”

But his fiercest criticism was reserved for the inadequate representations of evil in the story’s villains. Compared to the villains in the original movies, Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, the new characters, Kylo Ren and Supreme Leader Snoke, fail “most spectatcularly” in representing evil.

Overall, Ranzato called the film more of a “reboot” of the original George Lucas trilogy than a sequel.

“Not a classy reboot however, like (Christopher) Nolan’s ‘Batman,’ but an update twisted to suit today’s tastes and a public more accustomed to sitting in front of a computer than in a cinema,” he wrote.

Ranzato also criticized director J.J. Abrams whose work he said was “modeled on the sloppiest current action films derived from the world of video games. The only merit of J.J. Abrams’ film is to show, by contrast, how the direction of the previous films was elegant, balanced and above all appropriate.”

The film made more than $500 million at the box office during its debut weekend.

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