Better than 7 but not amazing

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2016)

SPOILERS
This film is pretty good. Both this and 7 are very similar in that they are both great in parts and bad in others. I disagree with everyone on here than the fan service doesn't spoil it. It MASSIVELY spoils it. They are just thrown in for no reason. The worst being R2 and C3POs cameo which although isn't awful it does beg the massive question WHY DO THEY END UP ON THE SHIP AT THE END IF THEY ARE LIGHT YEARS AWAY a couple of hours before. All they had to do is have them walking along, C3PO didn't even have to say anything, walking along the corridor at the end before the dude goes into see Leia. Simple. Why didn't anyone think of that. That was the single most possible thing i thought was going to happen at the end. Speaking of Leia. The Tarkin CGI is awful. Leia not so bad but it isn't amazing. I thought it was awesome that Tarkin was in it but then got really sick of seeing him so much because he was so badly done. Should have kept him in dark scenes. James Earl Jones sounds very old. DARTH VADER the comedian. "Don't choke on your ambitions" PLEASE DEAR GOD. Why did Vader have to say that. That isn't his character, the only scene of 2 he was in and spoiled by a stupid pun. Finally the thing i disagree most with everyone on here is K-2SO. Awful. Not funny. Boring. Stupid character. "Prisoners to be taken to a prison etc" ha ha.....he's an intelligent by the book droid for the whole film apart from that scene where he would know EXACTLY what to say instead of the hilarious comedy routine. I hated him from the start and loved it when he was destroyed. Rubbish. Nice to see Biggs and Red Leader. That was cool. On the whole great. Darker than the others and i was really surprised they all died. I assumed many of them would but every single one. Brilliant. Not because they died but because it created a great feeling of what it took to get the plans to Leia and really made the first 15 minutes of IV so much more. That's enough. Good and bad.