Fantastic film but not given enough of the Star Wars treatment

Rating: 9/10 (17 December 2016)

This film is a fantastic adventure that lets you experience the star wars cinematic universe from a foot soldier perspective with some beautifully orchestrated nods to the original trilogy which includes some seriously mind blowing cgi to resurrect one of the main characters from A New Hope but at the same time telling what feels like a whole new story even though the final outcome was filmed 40 years ago.This film firmly slots between ROTS and ANH giving any child growing up the chance to what we could only hope to do and watch all the films in chronological order.The film deserves all the accolades that it will inevitably receive and rightly so,but the only little niggle i have is that it doesn't quite endear you to it like the original trilogy or the TFA and that begins at the start of this film without the use of the iconic scroll which makes you feel that Disney didn't want this film to be on par with the new sequels.