lacks impact

Rating: 4/10 (30 December 2016)

If you are not a star wars fan it's unlikely this will convert you,as a stand alone the characters are too bit part and forgettable and as an episode it's redundant action and does little to meaningfully expand the universe and story. I have seen all the episodes but force awakens so far and I admit not a huge fan though as a child I was definitely sucked into the world. For me this is a forgettable star wars episode which I neither love nor hate.Visually it looks the part but for me it lacks impact, the characters left very little impression on me and action sequences are not tense if you don't care about the characters outcomes and know basically whats going to happen in the end, I quite liked Mendelson as the main villain and the final scene setting up new hope was a nice touch which did give me a bit of excitement and a blast of nostalgia reminding me why I enjoyed the first trilogy as a yout, overall it is mostly a bloated battle sequence with a foregone conclusion and I was pretty bored checking my watch throughout the movie.