Score the FORCE

Rating: 4/10 (16 December 2016)

Does a Good movie need over the top hype? Does a Great movie deserve more hype? Is that how movies are to be judged now? So much hype - it's got to be good.
Real world doesn't work that way boys & girls.
This movie is an example. It's just another 'comic book' movie. 80% special effects, 10% plot, and the other 10% equals sleight of hand to make up for the first 90%. The good guys/girls, the bad guys, the machines, weird looking characters are all the same, always the same in SW movies. There is no innovative quality to this movie. It's ho-hum. And why is it ho-hum? Because Lucasfilm Ltd. and Disney know they will make MILLIONS, maybe billions, on anything released even close to being SW in nature.
This film doesn't have to be Great, let alone Good, because the production/money people know we clones will pay to see anything SW related. Love that IMAX 3D don't we!
I personally have always loved the SW music, but this movie even blew that. For the first time I can honestly say the score was too much. During the showing I caught on real quick to the fact the musical score wasn't complementing the action, the music was trying to LEAD the action and those scenes really fell flat. After a while, a musical pattern developed and I could tell a good scene had hit the cutting room floor and was replaced by over the top music. This time the music couldn't make up for the inherently bland movie.
Just LOVED the 'Princess Leia' hologram!