No originality - cheap remake of original.

Rating: 2/10 (22 December 2015)

Looking with anticipation to the new Star Wars but all I got was a remake of a previous original. It was so blatant a rip off that I thought I was watching a rerun of an old TV episode. So the special effects (especially in IMAX 3D) were great, but the plot was so thin it probably took the writers about 20 minutes to come up with this script. We had some old characters (Han Solo, Chewbacka, Leah, etc) and a few new characters who resembled the original characters in their younger days. You had a Death Star, a Darth Vader wannabe, an android very similar to R2D2, a bar scene taken from the original, a lot of battles and chases, but no real substance. One can make the argument that every scene was a repeat of previous scenes from the original Star Wars. Star Wars fans should be very disappointed with the poor effort here and any lack of originality. I hope they do better the next time, but I doubt it as this will be a money maker regardless of the lack of script or original story.