What a piece of junk

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2015)

Wow, has everybody been brainwashed or something? This is horribly bad, an absolute stinker of a Star Wars movie. I was expecting a new plot not a greatest hits mash-up featuring variety show style cameos. The acting is absolutely diabolical, especially from Ford and Fisher who dial it in like never before for a last fat payday. Many of the worst scenes are written simply to get one of the old lines in like "I got a bad feeling about this". The film lifts all the audio and visual cues from the first movie and merely shifts the generation up a notch, Luke is set to become Yoda, Han is Obi Wan, there's even a giant, planet destroying space station with a weak point to destroy. Anybody hoping the Jar Jar factor has been eliminated is in for a rude awakening, that stupid BB8 robot dominates the whole film. The concept that the latest merchandising craze should be a sphere with a sphere on top (ball + ball = BB and the eight shape = 8) and the fact that they are selling this tat hand over fist says more about the people buying it and this film than the people flogging it to them. Brainless, weak and lazy and before anybody asks what I expected from a Star Wars film then the answer is I WAS expecting a new plot or why bother with all the secrecy. This should be The Star Wars Christmas Special 2, it's on the same level.