Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (Movie, 2015)

I feel like I was watching Star Wars: A New Hope, version 2.0. While visually stunning, we've been here before. Rey finds a message hidden in a droid containing the blueprints of the Death Star, I mean the location of where to find Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Check. Evil forces try to quash the Resistance with their mighty Death Star, I mean bigger Death Star. Check.

Visually beautiful and packed with thrilling action sequences. But you can't help but notice that almost everything about this film is derivative of the 1977 film. It doesn't take a genius to see how Rey is the new Luke, Finn is the new Han, Kylo Ren is the new Darth Vader, Snoke is the new Emperor, the new Death Star replaces the old and is destroyed in more or less exactly the same way. Blasters, light sabers, familial conflicts, dogfights, alien jazz band, aliens trying to collect money from Han, latent Jedi powers in an unknown living on a barren planet, a planet-destroying weapon. It's an old melody.