First Half Was A Dream, Second Half Was A Nightmare.

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2015)

I closed my eyes, ears and waited for the day to come. I was spoiler free and knew nothing about the plot. Yesterday went to see it with my wife and elder sister who are fans too. Excited, waiting to be amazed. Awesome casting I must say. Finn, Rey even Kylo Ren, I loved them and I loved their characters. Also BB-8, a perfect design... It had a cute personality too. Light Saber duels was the most realistic and epic ones ever in all the Star Wars movies. No stupid choreography like Revenge of The Sith or a simple A New Hope thing. Duel with Rey and Ren was the most realistic Light Saber fight ever. Really amazing cinematography. Good job. And so on... Everything seemed perfect and the movie started beautifully. I was watching A New Star Wars movie. And for the first one hour, it was real, new characters, new stories, everything went perfect. The joy, the laughter, seeing the elders, made me cry. After the first half, I turned to my wife and said "It was amazing".
I don't know how they managed it but with the scene Kylo Ren started to pray to Vader's mask, everything started to change. OMG I don't want to watch A New Hope all over AGAIN! The second half looked like a large trailer of the original trilogy. Same lines, same events. And they all happened so quickly. That's because we all knew what is going to happen? Yes, we wanted to see some familiar things but that didn't mean we wanted to watch the SAME thing all over again! A few touches like the end of Solo but, another Death Star, Shield, a WEAKNESS! No please, not again! Who were the republicans? Why did they died? Click. Just like that, no background, just a few shocked faces. I mean, I can understand that they are holding some secrets and background stories for the next movies but I need some real stories to be revealed. I don't want to see Rey and Ren were siblings in Episode VIII! Oh c'mon!
Who was captain Phasma? Casting was great, but what was her role? Just there for shields and a little cheap chat with Finn?
R2D2 in silent mod! I wanted to see R2D2 as much as Han Solo!
Han Solo, always lived at the edge. End of his life by his very own son is a good idea, I liked it. But just 2 minutes later Leia was proud with Resistance? Smiling? What was that about? Why? Was it against the franchising that Leia being sad or the Force was strong with her?
I can't believe I'm saying this but I think Lucas would have done a much better movie than this one. Even though, I hate the lines of Anakin in the Revenge of The Sith and also knowing what was going to happen, it made me cry and made me excited. Because it was amazing. This one WAS NOT!
6/10