Very boring unless you're a teenagers and don't know any better

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2016)

Let's be clear, it is not up to the level of entertainment, and expectations, of the last installment of the revived franchise. Last year, there was trepidation at the thought of a new star wars movie. This episode goes back in time thus it is pretty well done as far as the times it describes but frankly, it was pretty boring. I do love my fair share of spaceship battles or ground fights, rebels against the evil forces of the Empire but this episode is not much fun or entertainment although I would not accuse it of being badly done. It is only its lack of "soul" if ever entertainment had one, or more precisely humour and relationships between the characters whom have just met and are engaged in a battle for their survival. So it is clear there was no time to build relationships or give much depth to the characters. Even the robot wasn't as cute as most of them in the franchise, and R2D2 is more fun to listen to, even though we don't understand a single word rather than the humorous lines of this one. So it was well done, professionally, but flat and, rather boring. I was particularly disappointed in the lack of "scariness" of #DarthVader, of all evil ! The magnificent voice is there but it's the allure, the frightening allure of the least human of all dark forces that did not match the usual way we see him. I felt I was being sold a video game (and I wanted to play with it to be honest) but I was not watching a great star wars film.