Take your rose colour glasses off.

Rating: 3/10 (21 December 2015)

Excitement,anticipation, delirious child hood feelings and in the end major disappointment. Those were the stages of my force awakens journey.This was the first star wars movie i left without my jaw dragging on the carpet. Every 'WARS' movie has had several moments that kept me rambling on for months like a major fan boy. The George Lucas prequels get a lot of hate which i still don't understand. Each one of those is filled with a couple of glorious action set pieces. Pod race, duel of fates (menace),jedi charge at coliseum, clone war battle (clones) and probably nearly all of ep 3 is fan boy perfect (besides the dreaded nooooooooo). And you know what,at least lucas didn't tell the same story 3 times. Which is probably part of why people didn't like them. It started out so promising.The orders senseless genocidal raid on the encampment slated what i thought would be a great base story to establish that these guys make the old empire look like the brady bunch. But then things started taking an all to familiar turn, to the point where i was asking myself "havn't i seen this before". The plans stored in a droid, the loner unsure of their existence in the galaxy but secretly knows that the grass has to be greener, etc etc. Acting, writing and all general film mannerisms were carried out extremely hammy, boy oh boy does this have Disney's stink all over it. I'm really not sure if i want to see the next one because with all the unanswered questions and lack of character background and development I'm anticipating a 6 hour movie. Maybe they should of killed of Solo in the next one because maybe then with a bit more insight to the characters he was interacting with, the death of one of the most iconic star wars might have been a bit more then just a filler scene. As for Luke, well all i can say is don't put his name as the first two words we see. Then proceed to make us sit though 2 hrs to get 20 secs of what we all have been waiting 10yrs for. That would be like lucas stopping ep3 before we got to see anakin finally turn to the dark side. I could ramble but any sensible star wars fan will know that this has to be a very mediocre entry in to the franchise.If the next one is another average star wars movie the Disney brain trust might be calling lucas to see what he's up to.