Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens (2015)

When I first heard that there will be a new trilogy for Star Wars, I just jump and scream as high and as loud as I can. As you can see, I’m a BIG BIG FAN of the Star Wars franchies. I used to watch the previous 6 films EVERYTIME I just went home from school. I would watch it over and over again until the DVD cracked or lost. Since then, Star Wars will always be part of my childhood.

So let’s get to the movie.

The movie is good. Just good. Not perfect. There are things that bothered me and maybe it will be kind of strange for some Star Wars fans. They say the film was the best amongst the others. I don’t agree with this. Episode 7 seems to be copying the original Star Wars (1977) formula. When I went to the theatre, I wanted to see something new and fresh – yes, there are but not too convincing to me. They teared up the 50% with the new things, but left the 50% of the original formula. I wanted 75%-80% of new things.

The film follows 3 new characters. Those three new characters would be the main protagonists in the new trilogy. Do I hate them? No, I love them! But, Poe should have more screen time. Rey is amazing. There hasn’t been a lot of convincing female jedi in the film. Now this is one of the amazing new ideas in the movie.

The story lacked of information. Who is Supreme Leader Snoke? Where have Han Solo and Chewie been in the lost 30 years? How does Maz Katana get her hands on Luke’s lightsaber? Etc.

But as I said, the new ideas were very fresh. You can see the new lightsaber, the new X-Wing, the new characters, and Kylo Ren. Oh, I haven’t talked about Kylo Ren.

Kylo Ren has a good character arc. Though he was not as strong as Darth Vader, we love his inconsistent emotion and way of thinking. We identified him easily because we too are like Kylo Ren. We are human beings who can’t decide which to do and which to think. We sometimes chose the right one, but we also sometimes chose the bad one.

The final lightsaber battle was the best in the movie. It was motivated. We don’t know if Rey was going to defeat Ren or not. Rey doesn’t have any training skills. Because of the motivations behind the battle, we sit with hard tense from your feet to the tip of you hair.

But, there are a lot of things that really need to be answered in Episode 8. So… we’ll have to wait until 2017.

The verdict:

The film wants to draw attention to new audience, I understand that. But it lacked a new formula - FORMULA, not ideas.