Predictable? In french we say "phone called"

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2015)

My, my my Here we are. Star Wars episode VII, the force asleep!
I took defense of this movie since day one. "Relax people, it's J.J. Abrams. I was the Jedi against the bad Sith whom said "no F way, it will be awful".
He'll do good, I was telling myself, he has to. I was confident and maybe too much. I'm a fan of the Star Wars myth, but not hardcore. I found that it was the best option to wipe out all of (uh :p) the extend universe to start a new fresh day. But nothing was new, nothing was fresh (despite BB8).
Alone this movies is good. It follows the story, it has action, suspense (even a little), big revelations, OMFG moments and everything it needs to be a great movie, but But a New Hope is here since 1977 and it doesn't help. I have seen it 2 or maybe 3 times. Can you imagine how few it is beside hardcore fans who maybe have seen Ep. IV a hundred times or even more? Yet I found it predictable at a point I've seen more suspense in Spaceballs (yeah you know that great parody from Mel Brooks).
The first minutes, as a fan, you like the many similarities with Ep IV, but then by the time you learn who is Kylo Ren's father, the movie falls in a disaster of of "predictableness". New Emperor? Check. A star/ planetary weapon? Check. Find Darth Vader light-saber? Check. (And I thought it was lost) A hand less? Check. Kill my father? Check. Rebels destroying the star weapon? Check in almost the same fashion. Guess who is Ray's father? Obviously if you don't know it, you ain't smart. And if it's not, it will actually BE a pleasant surprise.
I have promised my stepdaughter go go see the movie with her too because I thought it was worth seen twice. Now I will still fulfill my promise, and I hope that knowing everything will make me see the movie with a new eye, and maybe see and understand what it seems I have missed.
Or is it?