Cobblers

Rating: 2/10 (20 December 2015)

The trend continues, Cinema declining towards the TV whilst TV rises towards the cinematic. JJ doesn't seem like a Director, no artistry or style. He just buys in teams who can do things, tells them to copy another product, and makes sure the boxes for the Disney Management have been ticked, he could be as easily working in Human Resources as in Cinema.
Flaws as a film? Boring, a plot riddled with holes, the scenes often feel like average TV work, there is no Auteur at work here. Dull to no acting, no depth, schmaltzy, inconsistent with the existing Star Wars Universe, insipid music,etc. It is a typical JJ film, totally forgettable.
I have seen in life (I am 45) that when someone is appointed as "a safe pair of hands", that they never are. The deeper problem here is the corporatisation of the World, here in the area of film. Disney Corp own Star Wars and Marvel, and the three previously separate identities are merging into one interchangeable, monocultural, politically correct,unimaginative thing. It's not art or even really entertainment, it is something else, and that thing is uninteresting.