An ageless story feels old

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2015)

Each movie in the franchise featured a large space battle. The battle in this film should have been huge. It simply is not. The Resistance in the film seems small, tiny compared to the First Order. Most oddly its 30 years later and there are few and far between improvements in technology it seems. The X-wings are painted black and the First Order has some new flashy outfits. It is not a completely thought out universe. It feels old like Leia and Han do, It didn't evolve and change. Ms. Ripley by far is the stand out star of the movie. Han Solo does his thing and reminds us why we wanted a sequel with this cast. At times this movie brings the magic back, other times it feels small and incomplete, and at times its just a bad movie. Its an odd orange version of Yoda.