Not as good as I had expected

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2016)

OK I am a fan, but not a fanatic! to begin with, the movie is solely carried on the tiny shoulders of Daisy Ridley (Rey), the rest did not hold a candle to her (including Harrison Ford & Oscar Issac), so well done miss Ridley, you saved the movie. Special effects and action are all very good, story? well 'aaay ' acceptable - but my beef is mainly else where. I watched this movie at Empire - Leicester Sq. in London, which to my knowledge is the only IMAX-Laser theatre currently in UK. The cinema is supposed to be the state-of- the-art with 4K resolution, 3D and the latest incarnation of IMAX which uses laser- beams to create images brighter than anything before, with better contrast blah- blah. But it failed miserably! I have seen sharper & cleaner pictures from a £500 TV set, Picture was awash with dot-crawl noise, contrast was terrible, motion-judder almost made me sick, and if that was not enough, the crappy 3D-glasses were so hazy, slightest ambient light would turn them gray, destroying any blacks! the space scenes background was not black, it was an annoying gray. Do yourself a favour, watch it on 2D and don't waste your money on IMAX-laser 3D , it is just a hype. Otherwise the movie is watchable, but not great! ---------------------------UPDATE------------------------ Just watched it again on bluray release, and I haven't changed my mind. I still find it "Not-Good-Enough" to do justice to previous movies. They need to really concentrate on a STORY first, a movie is nothing without a proper story - re-using previous stories is no good - no matter how much you throw Special-Effects at it. StarWars did not become a classic because of it's special effects alone. Needs a better story teller (as in both writer and director).