Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2015)

Good points about the movie:
Cast was great Very funny one liners
Now the other bits:
Droid escapes the empire with secret plans. This droid is a little funnier than R2 but is basically doing the same role as R2 did in IV. First order destroys village looking for the droid, again very similar to IV MF very conveniently near by to take our new heroes off planet A nice cantina to build the plot line a bit, with the lightsabre of Skywalker nicely stored for our new heroine to start her journey to the way of the Jedi. Very similar to IV, even in a similar chest.
You can see a theme emerging here. Even down to the hero getting killed by the evil dark side Lord. Funny enough it was son killing father again. Young Jedi wipes out the Jedi till only 1 remains, sounds very familiar again.
All throughout the film, I was guessing correctly what was coming next, there was no massive twist in the film, nothing like episode V. Even down to being told the Kylo is Solo's son and very easy to guess that Rey is most likely Skywalkers daughter.
All in all, this was simply a remake of episode IV. The writers were very aware of this as they wrote in references to the rest of the saga as they characters did pretty much what they had done in previous films.
I would say that from a story standpoint this is a very disappointing movie. The action and cast were great, but, and I will probably be shot for this, but the graphics in the prequels were a lot more to my liking,
The new republic is mentioned and then suddenly wiped out, along with there whole fleet. Just as well they had created a rebel alliance, sorry, resistance to fight off the empire, sorry first order.
I can only hope that the next 2 are more original. Everyone criticises Lucas for the changes he made to the original films, yet everyone seems very happy to the changes made to Episode IV in this one???????