Epic fail!

Rating: 4/10 (22 December 2015)

I've already reviewed TFA here but after watching it one more time I decided to once again express my indignation with what has been done to the Star Wars saga. If the scrip had been given to a group of fans or consulted with one maybe these grotesque mistakes would have been avoided, and maybe TFA would have merited the Star Wars name!!! I bet many of them are more capable than whoever did this piece of lazy crap.
But no such luck, and what we have here is a BIG FAIL. HUGE! There's almost no character development, no soul, no nothing. They're thrown into scene without reason or almost no background, to do nothing but react to circumstances. The dialogs are shallow, the humour is ill-timed and stupid, everything feels lazy, unconvincing, because it's all anchored (what???) in a big flawed thin air script.
Everything is permeated by explosions, boring battles and nonsense action to distract viewers from the poor, senseless and incredibly hollow plot. I'm being generous calling THAT a plot. The bad guy is half-bad and he's the offspring of two major Rebellion characters, which is an absurd no matter what reason they might come up with to explain his turn to the Dark Side. Either way he's just a teen Darth Vader wannabe, a fan of a redeemed villain (!!!!) which is absolute nonsense if you think about it even superficially. If he was honestly inspired by Vader then he should be a Jedi not a weak pseudo-Sith! That 's an amateurish, unforgivable mistake for any SW fan or not.
The other villains are hysterical, immature, obtuse, and absolutely without sense of purpose. There's no discernible chain of command, it all looks like the last desperate days of the Third Reich but it's totally messy and unconvincing. The big guy is - mind you - really big, and looks like he came from The Lord Of The Rings. And that's because he actually did, no kidding!!! Besides, it oozes bad CGI too, a far far cry from the mysterious and powerful yet realistic Palpatine. This Snoke is indeed a joke the size of his lame CGI effect.
Hyperspace jumps are used and abused here, and finally there's a Red Matter clone on steroids which is also abused in a very un-dramatic and meaningless way. It's red, bright and can be seen by naked eyes from apparently the whole galaxy, for an even greater effect but the result is null. At least the rogue stormtrooper got very excited about it, but then he's quite an exaggerated fella that gets excited about everything way too easy.
And the light saber fights... oh my, one of Star Wars staples... in TFA they aren't duels or confrontations. Far, far from it! They're casual, without any sense of purpose. Thus they lack drama, power and energy. It all look more like badly choreographed teen sword bashing. And they're very few and short, because unfortunately there's no need for those in this story - so much so that Ren uses his stupid lightsaber with stupid crossguards to destroy First Order property in childish anger fits - twice!!! I mean... Really???
The music - oh the music - doesn't leave an impress, at all! It has snippets of Star Wars here and there but was used generously on the trailers, to cause nostalgia as effect, tease our imagination and draw us to theaters. It worked, but in the movie it doesn't. It's not remarkable, it comes and goes undecided and off the movie pace, it's not original and not "old Star Wars epic" either. Truly lame.
There are a fez scenes that really captured the spirit and soul of SW though. The views of the remainings of the battles of old scattered throughout the desert are authentically dramatic and solid, and as such they fell powerful and real. Unfortunately it wasn't explored as it should, so it becomes just one more scene really, a good underdeveloped idea. Also the idea of Luke being gone is a powerful theme as well, I hope they know how to explore it in the next movies.
I dunno what make of it, time will make justice and hopefully next director puts this back on track because JJ had his shot and ruined it. I feel bad talking about something Star Wars like that but I wish it was different. I have a feeling that they filmed it right and screwed upon editing it, because the trailers were going so well and captured the feeling of the originals. I'm not counting on it though!!!