A last hope... Gone forever!

Rating: 4/10 (21 December 2015)

32 years have passed since Return of the Jedi! 32 years without a decent StarWars movie, in depth and fidelity (like many, I didn't appreciate much the three prequels for the same reasons many didn't), something that with Episode VII and all the rant reviews it's was getting, had ended, thinking to myself "StarWars has returned apparently. Hurra!". So there I go, excited and spirited, with my two friends to see the great comeback of StarWars. Do note, my review is a bit of a rant against StarWars lore treason committed in Ep VII. Not enough space for all the other not so nasty things! The film starts of well for the first 10 minutes or so. I even discard Max von Sydow line that "without Jedi there can be no balance to the Force". Who is this character (we never find out) and what does he know of the Force!!! Moving along, comes the villain, entering Vader's fashion in the movie, asking Sydow about #item, just like Vader to the captain of the ship in Ep IV. Too many memories I guess. Then someone fires a blaster shot to the villain and something happen that I never had seen before in many movies and StarWars games. The villain freezes in suspended animation (I guess) the blaster shot in mid-air, Matrix style! It's in this moment I sense a great disturbance in the Force, telling me something terrible wrong is about to happen in the next two hours! 20 min or so after, the two new heroes escape a First Order incursion (and a Star Destroyer by the way) aboard the Millennium Falcon, but they failed to the same against a transport/smuggling vessel command by non-other than Han Solo and Chewie, who RANDOMLY picks them on. What a small galaxy hey?! The main objective of our new heroes is to contact the "Resistance"! I asked o myself "just to whom is this "Resistance" resisting?" Because, it is said in the movie that the Republic has a massive fleet and that they support the "Resistance" against the First Order. Political context is not at all explained. Apparently the last 32 years have been quite a drag so no need to mention anything. Han helps them contacting the "Resistance", by taking them to another character who knows loads of the Force, yet is no Force user! Remember, in the original trilogy, the Force was something very few people believe or eared about. Remember Solo saying, I had never seen or eared anything in is travels about a mystical force the rules everything and everyone, and nothing like a blaster shot?! Or the officer aboard the Death Star who questions Vader's efficiency, "Spare us of your sorceries Lord Vader! Your sad devotion to that ancient religion ". Why does everyone suddenly is an expert on the Force! Hate it! Moving along, passing the obvious symmetries with Episode IV mentioned by everyone, we stand fighting another super-uber-weapon! This time is a massive cannon installed on a planet that uses it's very core as a catalyst (I think). Oh and also harness the light/energy of the sun nearby COMPLETELY! It fires a shot and hits 5 planets at once, utterly destroying them, all this from another corner OF THE GALAXY! Has you see, it's a great improvement over the Death Star I and II, with their fire and range limitations. Also, it could provide a great fireworks spectacle to every inhabitant of the galaxy, from Coruscant to Takodana (wherever it is). Yeap, it's that bad. I think screen writers and directors don't understand the concept of "creative license". The confuse it with "impossible fantasy"! At this moment I hate the film, I am weeping inside thinking to myself, "StarWars has I thought it was doesn't exist anymore", and still I have 45 min of movie to go ! Returning to the Force, on the enemy's planet the new prodigy/chosen is held captive. It escapes using mind trick techniques. This individual didn't even new she was sensitive to the Force, and yet here she is using it as proficiently as Obi-Wan! The pound of tears under my seat grows thick! Then the final fight, a guy who can stop a laser blast in mid-air and freeze completely an opponent, among other things, can't hold against a deserter Stormtrooper (non-force sensitive), and a girl whom until few hours didn't knew she was a force sensitive at all. The villain had displayed formidable powers already, so why not use them in this fight? Because he was wounded? Doesn't a Jedi's (or sith) strength flows from the Force like Yoda taught us? Sad, truly sad! The bad guy eventually defeats the ST, but this is tag fight, and now it's the prodigy's turn. Oh yes, she "summons" Luke's lightsaber (that apparently has will of it's own, just like the one ring), and prepare for battle. Firstly she is at odds but then get's the upper hand of the match, giving the bad guy a nasty face cut, and possibly cutting is hand or leg (couldn't quite see)! All this without any training whatsoever!!! I hate you Disney! Deeply sadden after realizing that StarWars loyal to the original will never be again, I get "blessed" with a last candy. Finding Luke's location, the prodigy sets on the Millennium Falcon to go to him. They set lightspeed and take approximately 5 seconds to cross what seems to be half the galaxy or more. Just which road Han Solo took in Ep IV to reach Aldeeran, I would like to know, because it took him hours to do that with the Millennium Falcon. These are just glimpses and so much more is untold in this review, and I could wright a book about what's wrong with StarWars today, but I am tired, mostly from waiting for anything true and faithful to it's origins, and done. Ep VII has my last hope! StarWars as I knew it it's gone for good.