What a waste

Rating: 1/10 (13 April 2016)

Most of the reviews I've read here confirm the negative opinions I had on watching this tiresome film.
There is a litany of offenses here:
the vapid plot - it doesn't grab your interest at the start, and goes downhill from there
the woefully unlifelike aliens which looked like they were plastic dummies - was this a badly executed exercise in "let's not use cgi for some of this to achieve a more realistic effect"
the storm troopers have had their day. they came across as boring and dated. for the plot to depend on one of them being a wimp and defecting is very implausible.
This criticism extends to planets and other scenarios etc All feeble and inadequate. Was the budget blown by giving Ford, Fisher and Hammil fat undeserved pay cheques leaving not much left for the film? (O, and Ford is going to do another Indiana Jones? - - wow . . )
A good Star Wars episode is part travelogue and a part adventure and this never succeeded.
Incredibly inadequate and ridiculous is my general summary. Followed by underwhelming, uninspiring. I hate to say it but I skipped sections of it as the boredom threshold sank lower and lower. I just wasn't interested in what was happening.
Finally, one thing which alone was a show stopper. Harrison Ford's crappy hair. You'd think that they could Mad Max him up a bit, have him being more macho, with a buzz-cut and not looking like a complete grandad dag. After all, they've ha ha "re-invented" the whole concept in all other ways, but apparently, they still get their hair stylists from the 1950s and for some mysterious reason the producers just don't get it.