The Force Is Finished

Rating: 1/10 (13 January 2016)

I was born in the 1970s so grew up with StarWars (I had most of the toys and watched the movies every Christmas when they were shown on TV). Naturally I was quite excited with the idea of taking my 7 year old son to see the new movie....
Except that this wasn't a StarWars movie.....
From the opening scene I felt something felt terribly off about what I was seeing on screen but I persevered and gave the movie a chance to draw me in.
Except that never happened.....
It honestly felt like I was watching a BBC Children In Need StarWars skit that lasted for an eternity (particularly that awful awful awful scene with Han, Chewie and the debt collectors - that actually felt like Dr Who skit mixed together with a StarWars skit. I kept on thinking James "terribly unfunny" Corden would show up)).
Not once did I feel any Lucas style magic or that I was witnessing an epic adventure unfold (the way I did with the original films and with the Lord Of The Rings films for example)
The original movies were filled with loads of woahhh!!!! Cool!!!! moments (like the first time you ever saw an AT-AT) and characters that you cared deeply about (thanks to these little movie making devices called "dialogue", "character building" and "pacing")
The Force Awakens was maybe created for the attention deficit disorder type kids that spend their lives flicking through YouTube videos because that's what it felt like.
Just one action scene melded on to another action scene melded to another (with minimal dialogue most of which was just flat one liners or nostalgic lines for the sake of nostalgia).......
When Han Solo was killed I actually felt angry at first that such a pathetic movie had just killed off such a great character......... and then I felt cheated by the way that no-one really gave a damn afterwards. Even Chewie seemed totally over him after about 5 minutes.
If you're going to kill of an icon at least make it emotional and have a little bit of space for grieving and powerful music........
By the time the Death Star scene arrived (How exciting!!!!!), I had lost all interest in even trying to find any redeeming things about the movie.
I think I rolled my eyes more during this film that I did during the last Transformers movie (which is saying something).
The characters felt totally flat and uninteresting and the plot... well just completely forgettable.
I've heard some people say that Kylo Ren was a great character because he had "issues". Well so what??? That doesn't make him an interesting character does it???
There were loads of things that bugged me stupid about the film, but most of them have been covered in the many other negative reviews so I won't bother rambling.
Maybe I've been spoilt by all the great television that's made nowadays, but then that isn't really any excuse for this shambles of a movie. The only characters I gave two hoots about were Han and Chewie. Carrie Fisher can't act, the movie's plot made Luke look totally pathetic and R2D2 was pretty much redundant.
All the new characters could have died and I wouldn't have felt even a tinge of emotion.
Enough rambling for now.
This doesn't deserve to be called a StarWars movie.
George Lucas would be turning in his grave (if he was dead).