Solid reimagining but lacking any new ideas

Rating: 6/10 (6 March 2016)

**Contains Spoilers**
It is funny that they do not tell you this in the trailers (and of course the numbering is also misleading) but this is actually a remake/a reimagining of the original Star Wars, not a new stand alone movie.
There is nothing wrong with doing remakes, and again, from a technical perspective the movie is executed well, but what gets boring quickly is that it becomes all to obvious what process they used to create the movie: Their basic idea was to take all the scenes anyone ever liked about Starwars, redo them, and then try to connect them: People like the holographic emperor scene from EP5? We need that too! Some giant death machine? Lets add it.
There is even a short trench run, and because people didn't like the amount of CGI in EP1-3 they just told everyone that they were using les CGI. Which is actually not true.
So, basically the 6 points are for the technical basis, which again is very solid. No points for originality and -1 for not being honest about what to expect.