A New New Hope..-SPOILERS

Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2016)

Nice movie, solid cast, nice visuals, good characters , plus, it's STAR WARS!!! And everything would be fine if I haven't seen the movie already. As it's the same as New Hope. And everyone who has ' A New Hope' fresh in their minds is aware of this. 1.Rebels vs bad militarized guys lead by a guy with black helmet (Vader-Kylo Ren) 2.Guy with helmet is after information hidden inside a droid (R2D2- BB8) 3.Droid's owner gets caught and is taken onto a space ship. (Leia- Poe) 4.Droid escapes on a desert planet 5.Droid is found by a force- sensitive protagonist and they bond (Luke-Rey) 6.The force- sensitive protagonist finds a teammate on a desert planet (Obi wan, Finn) 7.Bad guys kill the whole settlement on a desert planet 8.Droid owner gets rescued from the space ship 9.They leave desert planet in M.Falcon and they soon meet Solo and chewbacca 10.Protagonist slowly reveals his force powers 11.Dark hologram (Emperor-Snoke)commands from somewhere 12. Father- son reveal.. 13.Finn wants to leave our group of friends as he doesn't care about the greater cause. But then he comes back to save the day (Han Solo) I just realized ; this will take too long to write everything down... In short; then they bond, team up as the resistance. And they are up against a gigantic space station that is blowing planets up. They hold a meeting in front of hologram table and they blow the station up by using x-wings and by disabling shields on the ground. Everything the same as in ' A New Hope'. Disney played it safe and I can understand why. Disney want's at least a billion world- wide. So they didn't take any chances, they used familiar stuff they knew it will work. I guess it's not easy to please everyone, especially SW fans and their expectations. When you're making a movie that has a lot of fans even before the movie is made...I guess you don't get too creative and you don't take to many risks. I enjoyed the movie, it's nice, solid, and it's star wars. But ''this feels familiar''-filling was too strong. It's almost as if around the middle of the movie you knew exactly what to expect and you just wait for the movie to roll out. It's OK to throw in stuff from original SWs. For fans, nostalgia and to get that familiar SW filling. Old characters (Luke,Leia,Han etc,), Luke's saber, Vader's helmet, recognizable ship designs..it all works well and ties you to the originals. But you don't have to do the exact same story and all the same beats of the original movie. It's a remake/reboot as much as it is a sequel.