Good Star Wars Movie but...

Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2015)

I like this movie, on its own without the original movie, I'd say it was excellent, but unfortunately they didn't do too much with the story, you could have easily called this Star Wars episode IV mark 2. It became pretty clear about half way through, that the story is almost exactly the same as New Hope, interchange the characters, interchange the Death Star with Starkiller and you have almost the same movie. At times the unoriginality of this made me appreciate the story arc in prequels, although I'll never be able to get over the poor execution of those movies. Unfortunately, though, too many critics are getting carried away with the euphoria of having a movie that wasn't as poor as the prequels, most of them seem to just completely loose all their objectivity and professionalism and are making this out to be the greatest Star Wars movie, which this really isn't.
All in all its an enjoyable Star Wars Movie, well executed and well presented, which will undoubtedly immerse you into the Star Wars universe make you excited again, but I just can't help wishing they hadn't simply rehashed the original story. Was JJ Abrhams trying to make a point that the history has tendency to repeat itself? Or were they deliberately trying to make die hard fans so drunk with nostalgia that they lose all ability to complain about the deliberate rehashing of the old story. Either way, although it was enjoyable, when I left the theatre it just seem to leave a bad taste in your mouth and I couldn't help feeling being let down.
This could have been so much more, instead of adding something new and expanding the Star Wars Universe, instead, they just played ultra safe and made it claustrophobic. We can only hope that in next installment we have something that departs from the original story line, because no amount of nostalgia infestation will get them off the hook the second time around.