The force awakens, but the creativity certainly did not

Rating: 4/10 (7 April 2016)

Although i'm a fan of the first six movies, i waited for The Force Awakens to come out on Blueray before watching it. As so many old classics that get a modern follow up these days, you can but expect two and a half hours of disappointment.
Granted, The Force Awakens has the same ingrediënts of about every movie of the first six: some misty blabbering about the force, a bad guy with a helmet, controlled by an even bigger bad guy with a wrinkled face, a death star, a planet full of sand, a droid with crucial information, and some twisted soapy familydrama.
Therein lies it's failure for me. It's not enough to simply copy everything for the first six movies to make a good quality Star Wars movie. In order to continue with an old classic, you need to re-invent it. Sadly, while the force awakened, the creativity most certainly did not.