The Force of Star Wars

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2015)

So, yes - it's been some time since I wrote here... And I'm sorry to have left this website without any update for a long time. But changes have happened for good and this is good. But everything has its time and now it's time to pay my respect to Disney's Star Wars...
I can't really explain in details, but since a child I have felt that "Star Wars" is bigger than "Disney". You might thing this is ludicrous, but it's somewhat true to me. As a child I was exposed to "Empire strikes back" and I loved every second of it. And after that all the other old movies. It's just that the whole imagination in that trilogy was so enormous that it encompassed me and made me warm back then...and still it is like that.
The thing is that after that Lucas made the Prequels which was a good move, a fresh breath and certainly they were written and produced in a respectable manner. The problem is that too much CGI and further lack of acting skills made those films look bad in various ways. You can't say that Lucas made a mistake, he just didn't hit that same spot with the audience.
So that interesting point is that JJ Abrams hits that spot with the new movie. And does that using the whole specter of starwarsmanship. He directs good actors, films on beautiful places, gets the right writers...but something is amiss. And it's hard to tell what it is...
Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac are performing very good. Harrison Ford is stellar as usual. The others - not really adding that much to the on screen chemistry. But anyhow the movie is performing well and strong. The music is enormously beautiful, the shots are spectacular, the details are really cool, and the robots are, of course, adorable.
So my final question is - if everything was so good and reminded me of the old Star Wars trilogy that much, why did I feel partly a bitter taste throughout the movie? For now it is hard to explain the reason, but I feel that maybe to keep a person warm, you need to fuel the fire not only with new stock, but to be able to produce flames which were not expected to blow...
Perhaps this is why I have so much high hope for the spin off movies... :)