Excellent Action Movie and Faithful to the originals

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2015)

Wow! I'm positively surprised by the new Star Wars movie! The story is perhaps a bit too much like episode IV, but then again that was my favorite episode and perhaps its not altogether wrong for stories like these to come in cycles.
The music was OK, though a bit thin (as if the composer had been afraid to depart too far from the original score; it was too timid and unimpressive to me). The old themes popped up every now and then to my feeling "at least put the old themes HERE". Like when princess Leah appeared with her theme playing. Very touching.
Harrison Ford had a very prominent role and was seen on the screen for most of the movie. So was Chewie, played by a Finnish basketball player. Harrison was my original reason for seeing the movie.
The new cast and generations of Jedi and darksiders... amazing! The new Jedi girl Rey was a very solid character and well played. The acting _could_ have been immature and flamboyant, but was not at all so; her character performance was as good as one can expect. Some have taken issue with how fast Rey's "training" was, but it didn't really bother me since the character was otherwise so unassuming and genuine (scared orphan girl beaten by harsh conditions into a cynical workhorse that does not expect anything from the false promises of a grand future in space). I expected a "quota" black guy in the movie, but again his character was deep and genuine. They say that the good guys die first in war, and that's kinda what happened to him too, though I suppose we will see him again.
I will probably want to see the next episode and the story of Rey and maybe even Luke Skywalker (played by himself he-hee).
By the way, that Star Destroyer looked awesome pointing right at you in Dolby 3D.