not great

Rating: 4/10 (29 February 2016)

the film was as bad as this website. Firstly there was a lack of original storyline, almost all of the gags and main events were taken directly from previous episodes. The new characters added were, in fairness, quite good and added a new dimension to the films. However there was far too much time focused around old characters and old features. I don't understand why the film needed to revolve around the exact same story lines as the previous films. Bringing back the death star for a third time is just overkill. The decision to bring back the empire just makes the 'triumphs' in episode 6 pointless. Essentially all the writers and the director have done is attempt to remake the original trilogy. It's a shame because they did bring in some interesting new ideas and characters, but unfortunately they barely even used them in this movie. Ultimately though nothing is going to change for the rest of the movies as I'm they're making more than enough money from this.