I have never been a big fan of Star Wars

Rating: 5/10 (17 December 2017)

I have never been a big fan of Star Wars because I found the movies to be mediocre in most of the relevant aspects.
They had mediocre stories placed in a galaxy of mediocre creativity with cheap aesthetics and a questionable concept of man.
So watching a Star Wars movie has been a mostly boring experience for me in the past.
Now guess what: This one was a positive suprise. Probably because I didn't have high expections.
Of course the story isn't really good. It's in a lot of parts ridiculous and it's 100% predictable. Of course the movie irritates an intelligent human being from the first scenes on:
Why do we have bombers that have to fly "above" the target in space? Why are their bombs falling "downwards" as there were gravity? Why do laser shots have a ballistic path to their target? If you can destroy a whole fleet with a light jump why didn't they "weaponize" this long ago?
But to hell with such questions. Star Wars always has been fantasy and never Science Fiction. They nerver understood space. They never had an inspired access to technological fiction.
So why did I enjoy wtching this piece then?
Because I start to like the aesthetics and the well made action scenes.
And this is said by someone who normally hates the overuse of boring action sequences in movies. But somehow the overuse of action sequences didn't seem boring to me. Dont' know why. Maybe because there were those super-cool red guys? Who knows.
So overall I can say that I found the new Star Wars entertaining. But I feel a bit sad for the real fans of the franchise. I guess they had some expectations about character development and continuation of story that weren't met. Because this must be said: The charecters are mostly colourless and dull. The movie tells us almost nothing about their history, their psychology, their goals. What's about this Snoke guy? Oh never mind, he's dead before you learn anything about him anyway...
... but hey - who did expect a decent story from Star Wars anyway?