2015: The Force Has Awoken!

Rating: 8/10 (26 June 2016)

"The Jedi, the Force, it is true. All of it." said Han Solo. Millions of people have been waiting for the 7th Star Wars movie. And I'm saying. It was worth it to see!
To stick with a good tradition, I won't spoil in this review. So, what the film. is about? 30 years past. Luke Skywalker has vanished. The First Order, a new organization ruling the Galaxy, is still looking for him, because he's the last Jedi. The Resistance, leading by Leia Organa Solo, a quite strong military group is fighting with them. After the Empire's fall free Galaxians have created the Republic, which helps the Resistance to fight. One day Leia orders Poe Dameron, her best pilot, to fly to Jakku, where an old ally has found a clue about Luke's whereabouts.
When I was going to cinema, I was expecting an amazing spectacle with my favorite characters. The moment I sat down in the chair and saw the Lucasfilm logo, chills ran down my spine. Then I thought, let's see what does J.J Abrams is offering us. After leaving the cinema I said "Wow".
After three prequels with hopeless story, too many special effects, lots of explosions we have come back to the real Star Wars. An epic story with unique characters like Han Solo, Luke Skywalker or Leia. In this film we have seen a great return to the best way of making great sci-fi cinema. Not lots of CGI animations, but good actors, good screenplay and memorable characters.
Let's start from the characters. We met new ones: Rey, Finn, Kylo Ren, Hux, BB-8, Captain Phasma, Snoke, Maz or Poe. In contrast to Qui Gon Jinn or Nute Gunray, we can say something about them. Rey - bright and smart girl from Jakku, garbage collector. She can also fly ships, fight with lightsaber (yes, we don't actually know where did she learn it) and she has the Force in herself. Very nearly and she would kill Kylo Ren. There are even theories that she is Luke's daughter. The next one, Finn is a stormtrooper who has become a good man and started to fight with the Resistance. him Kylo Ren is the evil Ren knight, Snoke's apprentice. Also he's Han's and Leia's son. He has something like 'Vader complex'. He wants to be as powerful as he was. But something pulls him to the light. The ruler of the First Order, Snoke is shrouded in mystery. We will probably see who is he in the next episode. The story. Why I like it? Because it is like in the 4th, 5th and 6th episode: interesting, full of incredible battles, with a little of humor, with nice and real special effects and without annoying characters like Jar-Jar Binks. We have also lots of dialogues and some stories told by characters. They don't talk to each other in huge buildings standing by the window or sitting on the sofa (like often in "Revenge of the Sith"). All of it makes the story interesting and memorable. I was really surprised when I saw true X-Wings and true Millennium Falcon on the screen. I didn't see (fortunately) strange and computer-genered spaceships in numbers of thousands. The best way to show the spectator landscape, background and action. There were also true stormtroopers, bases and many other things that impressed me a lot.
Abrams came back to the tradition of main and ending scene. At the beginning we see a huge cruiser and at the end we see an epic scene on which... I won't spoil at this moment, but I say: a fantastic location and interesting camera shots impressed me a lot.
Has anyone recalled about music? So, indisputably, it's fantastic, sometimes sinister, sometimes imagining. Applause for John Williams!
An only minus of "The Force Awakens" is a big similar to "A New Hope". A quarter of this film is, in fact, a remake of the 4th episode. As I said, I won't spoil, so I won't say nothing more about how it is similar.
Summarizing, if You, dear reader, want to see a great space opera with all the things You need to have fun, watch "Star Wars: The Force Awakens!"