Great entertainment for the young boy in me

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2015)

To begin with The new Star Wars is a great film. It has some decent acting and storytelling, the visuals and special effects are overwhelming and most important finally part of the original Star Wars vibe is back again at the start of this new trilogy.
But there is something missing and it took me a night's sleep to really figure out what it was. The movie never sweeps you of your feet, grabs you by the throat and makes you shift towards the edge of your seat. Is it because my expectations are to high, is the original trilogy so mesmerizingly good that it can never be 'bettered', is this just a simple remake of the original and therefore not surprising enough...?
None and all of the above. I finally decided that the last time I was blown away by Star Wars was when I first saw the original as a 12 year old kid. Never had I seen such a strange and intoxicating universe, Luke became my personal hero and I instantly lost my heart to princess Leia. Combine that with the evil empire, spaceships and epic light saber battles and you can easily understand that Star Wars took over my whole world.
Now decades in time, experience and movies later I revisit this world like a 40 year old man who revisits the house he was brought up in. You feel the warmth, the love and relive good memories, but now you also see the not so good moments, cracks in the image of your ideal world...it's simple the new Star Wars is an OK scifi flick nothing more nothing less and it's too bad I'm not a 12 year old kid anymore.