Waste of my time -felt like playing a video game

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2016)

When my father took me to see the first ever Star Wars movie, screened at Odeon Cinema in early 80's, i was a kid. I was thrilled by the graphics of the movie, which was great even to this day, as it was a immeasurable experiential leap for me from watching the movie Weera Saradiel. Since then I watched all Star Wars movies as a youth and also with my son, Mev, through generations, and played every movie-game on PC and every generation of Playstation. Today with Mev again I watched the latest. Of course I enjoyed the visual perspectives to the fullest. But at the same time I was a bit disappointed as much as I was as a child that day after seeing the first movie. Star Wars civilization is yet to figure-out a better way of video surveillance, remote sensing, spotting and hunting down enemies. Their sophisticated worlds still depend on the capacity of dumb, individual, lowly-sensitive robotic soldiers to hunt down enemies from door to door, corridor to corridor, wood to wood, behind rocks and walls, behind bushes, like a bunch of stupid idiots jay-walking into ambushes. This wasn't any better than our great grandfathers' time when the British hunted down Weera Saradiel in thick jungles. Not even a single CCTV camera is found in a corner. As in most popular Hollywood movies, the kind-hearted, strong n' protective, supportive, Black guy dies before the movie ends, leaving the "stronger" protagonist white guy (gal in this movie) taking the fight over. The black guy is usually an honest subservient, less intelligent, humble, army-worker serving the best interest of the white guy/gal. There is no cool science, no technological advancement, no romance, no kisses. But politically correct to have had a dominant female protagonist, not playing a role merely as a sex object, which men often fall in love with. Though I expected at least Obama could make a change to the dominant American white culture to have a black guy kissing a white woman on Hollywood screen or fall in love with each other. It never happened. In general the movie has no big story-line, a plot, other than few random dog fights, sword/saber fights, fist fights and occasional acts of robotic cutie. No excitement, no sensual appeals, no comedy nor tragedy or emotions to take-home in general. Fighting goes from man-to-man, robot-to-man, ship-to-ship as of today giving the meaning of life to fighting wars in sandy brown dry deserts. No one can still hit a target with a single gun shot, but needs a shower of smart bombs/plasma sprayed allover to destroy one as of today -one random shot occasionally hits where it was intended. Dead are mostly bystanders. It looks like a low-budgeted movie overall with no depth -meaning that it's a failure. But money they pump into advertising wont let this Star Wars one such. For $60 bucks it wasn't a bad outing on a Boxing Day for me and Mev. Because the snack was great.