Back to 1977

Rating: 2/10 (5 January 2016)

After all those years, you learn that star wars will be back in 2015, you wait for one more year and guess what? you are back in 1977 instead of 2015!
Solo Han, Leia, Luke are all in the same place after 38 years. No, not played by young actors/actress but old folks. 65 year old grandma-looking princess and solo han with same mad attitude, portrayed as grumpy couple. And a meek Luke Skywalker, as if he has spent those 38 years watching his old movies. So living characters are easily copied in the new movie and what about the dead ones? gollum-faced Snoke replaces the emperor and Kylo Ren replaces Darth Vader. Yet both Snoke and Kylo do not have power to impress the audience. One might say Snoke's voice is striking, which is true but it is true for Kylo Ren only when his mask is on. This is another question that why Kylo wears this mask. Darth Vader needed it but what about Kylo, if he could easily put it off? Actually audience would have preferred him to keep it on his face because a teenager instead of a villain appeared under it. R2D2 is also put to second place after another smart ass droid BB. Producers are so obsessed with the idea that fans are rushing to theaters to see old fellows i.e: Luke, Leia, Solo. Old Luke is turning around in the final scene of the movie as if billions of fans were waiting for it. It is obvious that producers could not dare to put something new in order to avoid criticisms. This is why, not only characters but also what happens is so similar to episode IV-V-VI. Kylo Ren is son of Solo Han (remember Luke-Anakin), villain is trained by a scary master, dark side constructs another structure like Death Star to destroy the republic. Enough for the resemblance with Episode IV. And what about the movie itself? Visual effects are way too realistic compared to the scenes in Episode I-II-III. Also fight scenes are more unpretentious so we didn't see exaggerated light saber scenes similar to which 80 year old Christopher Lee jumps and flips all around. ships, stormtroopers are looking more real.
To conclude, Force Awakens made me feel like i am enough with Star Wars series. Producers may claim that this movie is a huge hit with more than 700 mio USD revenues only in US so far. However they should keep in mind that one may understand how much this movie sucks only after he sees it. so we'd better see the score after 2nd movie.