A big missed opportunity here.

Rating: 4/10 (25 December 2016)

This was really three movie's worth jammed into one, unfortunately. Why not make three movies exploring the lives of the main characters and providing a sense of what is happening on the planets they inhabit? And I'd like to know why there's an Asian Ninja guy who talks a lot about the Force yet isn't a Jedi? And so on (they could have even spent some time on how the main robot character came to develop a conscious, whereas his robot buddies did not!). As others have said, this felt rushed, yet some of the dialog was rather stiff, but to me the biggest problem was the acting. The "universe" felt like Star Wars but the main characters felt like they were from somewhere else, a boring galaxy far away, perhaps. While I disliked the Asian Ninja guy character most (seems like they did this to appeal to the Asian viewing markets), it's easy to overlook the one character and enjoy the rest. But after a while I began thinking that if one of the characters went to a refrigerator and took out a can of Coke or Pepsi, it would not be at all surprising!
I liked the idea of the film though as I said it should have been divided by three, and the action scenes were good, but to me it registers as a good Star Wars-ish action film. If that's what you want, you'll likely get it. However, I don't think you'll get anything "deeper." For example, why not spend some time on showing us why the "average Joe" is tempted by the Dark Side? Instead, we get boring or basic/stiff dialog that had a deadening effect on the film. The previous effort wasn't very good, but it felt like a kind of kiddie version of a "good" Star Wars film, whereas this one has more of a "mish mash" feel. I can imagine an excellent film after what I saw (or two or three), but I wish I had seen that film!