They dare to call it STAR WARS!!!

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2015)

I never write reviews, but this time I couldn't help it! What a disappointment! I don't even know where to start.... From the title, perhaps? STAR WARS they called it.... You gotta be kidding me!!!! This is no STAR WARS. It's a lame attempt of imitation, and a bad one, too! While I was watching this movie at the theater, all I could think was: the STAR WARS Saga, the real one, is dead. Which is very sad, because they have wasted a great opportunity of doing something really good. I am a great fan of STAR WARS. And I don't mean only the first three films, but even the last three ones, the prequels that so many people didn't like very much. STAR WARS has been the first film I ever saw in a movie theater when I was a child. Since then, that Saga has been my favorite, always. Therefore, I went to watch this movie with the best predisposition in the world. I had high expectations, too. After all this years, I thought, they will come up with something great and memorable. They have had enough time, money, and resources to do so. I have nothing against J.J.Abrams either. I had enjoyed the two Star Treks, alright. Besides, I have been reading lots of novels from the Star Wars Universe for a long time and I quite like most of them. There are tons of ideas and intriguing stories in those novels, even for bad screenwriters with no ideas at all of their own. So, there is no excuse! Instead, they just remade the same old story, again: droids carrying precious information stranded on a desert planet, pursued by storm troopers. A Death Star (again) but this time it is an entire planet, which doesn't make any sense, if you know just a bit of Astrophysics. And then what.... another Empire? After the other one has been destroyed a few years earlier??? Where does this new Emperor come from? And again the space station can be destroyed only by lowering the shields (this time by a team of people who have no plan and no idea on what they are doing) and by flying X-wings through the structure and placing a perfect hit to a specific target...... Same old story, we have seen all this already. But this time it was much, much worse because of bad actors, bad performance, no meaningful dialogue, no development of the characters whatsoever. Who are those guys, anyway??? For people like us, who know something of the Star Wars Universe, they make no sense at all. A girl, who knows nothing of the force, can beat a Sith Apprentice holding a light saber for the first time in her life??? You gotta be kidding me! A Black clone trooper? Weren't they all a perfect replica of the Bounty Hunter Jango Fett??? And weren't they programmed to obey orders without even thinking (order 66, for example)??? Not to mention that he is able to hold his ground against a Sith.... have Abraams even watched the old movies at all??? Please don't misunderstand me. I love black actors when they are up to the task. Mace Windu was great in his role and I liked him. It's the film and the story that are wrong. And what the heck is that silly red light saber???? The best way to cut off your own hands for sure, LOL! All in all, any of us could have done a better job. Even the old stars didn't make much of a difference. It was like they had nothing important to say or to do. There was no explanation or meaningful dialogue or feeling of any kind. Such a waste! If there had not been a Star Wars Saga before, and this movie had been the first of its kind, it would have been a complete failure. Nothing in common with the first Star Wars of Lucas that made history. When I got back home from the theater, I wanted to watch the true STAR WARS film once again to see the difference, and it was indeed like "long ago, in another galaxy far, far away...." another universe entirely. Am I going to watch the sequel next year? Definitely NOT. That is no STAR WARS. Not any more. They don't deserve my money.