Guys, after so many positive reviews I finally watched this movie and believe me after minutes of movie I wanted to get out very badly. In last 2 years Hollywood has given us many good sci fi movies. But, Star wars is not up to the mark.
This movie has about as many(or more) plot holes and inconsistencies as some of the worst B-movies of the Eighties. Nothing makes sense, nothing feels designed to have some meaning or to build drama, instead everything that happens is like a loose succession of trivialities:
Protagonists stumble upon each other as if the whole galaxy was small like a village.
Protagonists don’t seem to be able to express any real human emotions, apart from violent outbursts like 8 year olds, or shallow friendships. Nothing feels real. Protagonists turn into friends or enemies without real character development. It’s like when you watch 8 year olds narrate stories while they play with their SW toys. Movie plot has the exact same emotional depth as 8 year olds playing with toys, I am not kidding.
Don’t expect to hear a new compelling music score, you won’t find any. Also don’t expect to see new creatures or planets that stimulate your imagination, creature design is just a rehash of what we are used to, NOTHING new is explored, no new planets or sceneries.(you just get the obligatory desert and ice planet, etc. I thought we had a whole galaxy to explore?
Can you believe how shallow the character design is? Apparently there exists an Asian looking gang in this universe whose name is KanjiKlub-Gang. You can’t make this stuff up. It’s EXACTLY what an 8 year old would choose as name.
Also there is a childish understanding of astronomy, like in one scene having multiple planets just a few thousand miles apart from each other.(the old trilogy had much more scientific accuracy, at least they didn’t make such glaring mistakes).
I guess as people say Old is gold. This movie just proves that proverb to be right. Old star wars movies were damn good. But this failed to impress me and at least my friends.
This movie feels like a giant jedi mind trick. It’s a TRAP! Better to watch Guardians of the galaxy instead of this. I guess even CD of guardians of the galaxy must be out by now. need to check that one online or in stores.