Such a wasted opportunity

Rating: 4/10 (19 February 2016)

I just watched this with my daughter and have to agree entirely with DavidMezies' review. I am old enough to have watched all the Star Wars films on their release and I found this to be a dumbed-down, superficial, trite and clichéd travesty.
My (obviously much younger) daughter has seen all the preceding films and also found this to be a real disappointment.
No doubt any SW fan will have to watch it, but please don't expect anything from it except a shallow, regurgitated re-hash of the original story - with none of the depth that episodes 4-6 exhibited.
The only saving graces of this movie relate to technical merit, such as wonderful cinematography and location shooting, some reasonable effects and little else.
I'm desperately hoping that the final two episodes manage to dramatically improve on this abysmal effort, but definitely not expecting that hope to be fulfilled.