An unworthy cash-in

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2016)

I write as a dyed-in-the-wool Star Wars fan. I hated this movie.
The actual story is tissue-paper thin and could have been done much better. There is an awful lot of padding - some scenes are as painfully long as an in-game cut-scene that you can't get out of. To make up for lack of story, lots of CGI has been thrown into the mix to try to create a "wow" factor. It doesn't. All it does is emphasise how weak the story actually is. For me, an adult fan (I'm 50), it was pretty poor but my 6 and 13 year old nephews seemed to enjoy it. Most of the adults seemed to think it was "OK".
This is not a worthy addition to the canon, unlike The Force Awakens, which was.