Some of the best with some of the worst of Stars Wars

Rating: 6/10 (16 December 2015)

I came out of the film with mixed feelings, sadly more on the side of the negative than the positive. I was really looking forward to this new release since I saw the first teaser around a year ago. I thought that we could finally restore balance to the force... sorry!, to the saga! after the disaster oft he second trilogy. I really think that it has been a lost opportunity to do so, in spite of JJ efforts. If for true villain of the second saga was no other than Lucas himself, I think that the new Emperor of the dark side is now Disney. To start with the good stuff I can say that visually speaking this one is undoubtedly the best of the whole saga, JJ has done a remarkable job here, probably the best space fighters fights ever known in sci-fi movies, I don't think that a better job could be done here really. There is nothing too wrong with the plot neither, only, if this was the first stars wars movie, which is not. For a 7th episode they really didn't need to constantly go back to the classic material, which makes it all so predictable as well as forced. It really seems to me that most of this plot comes from Disney marketing dept focussing to much on the young audience and the merchandising. Regarding the new faces on this saga, Ridely and Isaac give good overall performances (very much Star wars) while Boyega and Driver are pretty disappointing and, in the case of the first one, truly annoying most of the time. A final comment, I went to the avant premiere (16th of Dec), so, all die hard Star Wars fans at the screening, well, not a single clap at the end of the film...