The Force Awakens: A New Hope Remixed

Rating: 1/10 (20 December 2015)

The basic plot of The Force Awakens is heavily borrowed from A New Hope. JJ Abrams introduced new characters that are not really new. Everything in this new world is familiar. Whatever worked with the old Star Wars was copied and rehashed into the greatest hits of The Force Awakens. Rey is essentially the new Luke; Rey is the new comic relief here in place of Chewbacca; Poe, a pilot, is the new Han Solo; BB-8 is a cuter R2-D2. In this new movie, the Death Star is gone, but it was replaced by a bigger one - "The Star Killer". In place of Darth Vader is Kylo Ren. Visually, it is as epic as any Star Wars, but story-wise it is moronic. It is no better than any Avengers movie.