One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Rating: 5/10 (25 December 2015)

If the prequels were bad (With Revenge of the Sith closing upon average) then this movie is slight above average for a big holiday blockbuster.
However I'm giving it a 5 because, no matter how much wanted to like TFA, one thing always kept me from liking it, it plays it not only too damn safe, it's that it has no ideas of it's own to bring to the table.
This is in no way a minor flaw, because no matter how much enjoyable the new characters are, the old universe feels here more like a background set so that a new big action Blockbuster can be regurgitated.
Everything being said being more like a reboot, or remake is entirely correct, so I want repeat this here. So my slightly low review is more like a warning to Disney: Stop being interested only shortsighted cash-grabs and bring up your own ideas. Where is the myth? Where is the tension if you have just another ***-pull death star, another ***-pull big baddie, another obi- wan style death?
Whatever good was in this movie was entirely what drifted apart from the tired old tropes that the original trilogy already covered (I'm thinking of Finn and Kylo, an unlikely hero and a antagonist that isn't a cartoon villain). And I'm almost entirely sure that what pulled this movie down was Disney big wigs telling Kasdan to make a film so close to the A New Hope that it became a remake.
The good news is that TFA seems also to point to the way of a reboot. Normally I hate reboots but in this case it HAS to be covered. Star Wars is fairy tale myth woven with psycho-familiarism and great dosages of investment and emotion on characters.
So Disney stop worrying about how many tickets and toys you are gonna sell, because that in the end doesn't matter! If the audience gets sick of seeing the same thing over and over again , then this franchise will certainly die, something which is almost certain the way things are going, when the younger millennials will have no loyalty or knowledge to the older star wars films.
So to sum up: Be brave, use more myth and complex situations with the new characters, don't be afraid to brake new ground ( this is what the old fans want actually!!!)