Almost makes up for Episode 7

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2016)

To keep it short and sweet, this is much closer to what a Star Wars film should be like. Felt like it fits in well and feels truer to the originals (4-6) without recycling everything.
Since it takes place just before Episode 4 you will also see a lot more content from the original trilogy which makes it even funnier that this one still feels more original than Episode 7.
No idea how Episodes 8 and 9 will dig out the garbage hole which 7 dug with the "new" (copy + pasted) storyline. Hopefully more side stories like this one will keep the Star Wars torch shining.
If I had to critique one downside - I did not really start to care for the characters until what felt as too far into the movie, but 1 episode for a story of this magnitude might be too short to really build such character development and attachment to them.