It's hard to say the truth

Rating: 7/10 (1 January 2016)

It took me some time thinking to myself if I should write something about this new SW movie and upcoming trilogy. I have to say that I really got skeptical about this new movie. As a huge fan, in my heart I wanted a new movie so badly, so deeply! But as a grown-up (not much of a grown-up, though), I must review it deprived of any passion. Let me say that I really enjoyed JJ's Star Trek. Why mention that? Well, wanna change everything in a long line of movie sequels and large canon time line? Throw time travel in the script. It's plausible. And it worked as a charm for Star Trek. Maybe I'm saying that because I'm not a hardcore ST fan anyway. Truth is, it worked nice to ST. Now, I'm not saying that time travel would had worked to SW. ST has a more diversified universe and saw time travel before. I guess it wouldn't had worked to SW at all. But neither worked throwing and flushing away decades of lore from such a gigantic expanded universe, like that of Star Wars. True, not everything is likable or really an original idea in the SW EU. But there were millions of fans around the planet that suddenly had all they knew about SW gone into nothing. Years of reading, thousands of dollars spent in books, comics, etc. Now everything is gone. And for what? Only to see SW turned into another teen action paced movie. I understand, of course, that this is business. And as for business what count is money. Disney bought SW from Lucas. SW is an endless goldmine. As Lucas had grew weary from directing/producing/writing/filming/making-up/bossing around, he sold SW to Disney. What Disney supposed to do? "Let's change everything. We must harvest a new wave of fans". I understand that. Do money. And I comply with those changes. That's how things work. What I don't understand here is the total lack of creativity. What I don't understand is a bigger Death Star. Another SW character falling down a deep well/high place (looks like it was not enough throwing Luke in Cloud City, Emperor in Death Star, Darth Maul in Naboo, Master Windu in Coruscant.) Aside from being almost a reboot, it lacks a great villain. Kylo is nothing but a brat, an emo, an adult man acting like an spoiled kid. Hux fights for having the attention from Supreme Leader Snoke, whom clearly doesn't know what he is doing. BB8 is just a piece of merchandise for Christmas (face the truth, he has a cool visual, but all in all, he's boring). Besides, come on, another super high important blueprint hid in the droid's guts??? Dude! Kylo is clearly beyond his 30's, been trained as Jedi for probably years, but he knows squat about the Force. Doesn't know how to build a proper light saber, doesn't know how to handle a light saber in battle. He practically lost a duel with the New Order janitor!! And how the hell a New Order trooper working in the sanitary crew knew how to handle a light saber? In the other hand, Rey suddenly is almost a Jedi master, doing mind tricks like she had done them her entire life. I could easily stay here and keep criticizing SW TFA. But that is just to hard to a true fan, because despite the fact that I really felt weird about JJ taking the lead of a new SW movie, I also had a "new hope" that this time things would end up nice. But I can't remember even the musical score. What happened to SW being an space opera? The real cool thing to remember is that dude with that baton blaster.