8 Star Wars Movie Scenes Where Reshoots Are Painfully Obvious

8. Rey Embracing The Force - The Force Awakens

By his own admission, JJ Abrams shot about 10 minutes of new footage after principal photography wrapped on The Force Awakens, consisting mostly of pick ups, close ups, and an added line here and there to create connective tissue between scenes.

For the most part they don't stand out in the finished film, but there is one reshot scene included in the final battle which sticks out like a sore thumb.

The lightsaber duel between Kylo Ren and Rey is an amazing sequence. Well choreographed and suitably emotional, Abrams, by suggestion of Ava DuVernay, went back after cutting the movie together to add two key shots.

The obvious one is the moment where Rey closes her eyes mid-battle and embraces the Force, echoing advice from Maz Kanata earlier in the story.

The key giveaway is just how disconnected this aside is from the rest of the battle. The extreme close up works for the emotion of the scene, but it (combined with the soft-focus blur of the background) makes it clear it was injected into a previously snappier sequence.