Another Galaxy Altogether

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2015)

** Spoilers Inside**
Star Wars. 3-d. Merry Christmas to me. Coming into this installment I had heard much of the gripes and woohoos out there. Anyway , as we all know now when George Lucas told 60 minutes " there are no 7 8 & 9" , that prophecy , misspoken may have been.
Like a lot of Star Wars nerds for the last 40 years I only knew limited details of these final three chapters. How a galaxy can lose the knowledge of hot chocolate , seems more outrageous to me that Han Solo's death. But that's me.
In a lot of ways this movie is like the country record played backwards. or more like the ITunes playlist on random shuffle. Was Jakku ..Tattoine? Was Rey , Luke and Han Likewise Obi-Wan? Was the Star killer planet a death star on roids? Is KyloREN the new Vader or the old? Was Finn a post modern , C-3PO? Do you see Jar Jar?
The Movie feels like the culmination of a film school cut and paste project in presentation and it cannot hide It even by sticking the nose of an imperial cruiser right in your face to block it. With it being unbalanced and sloppy as the final versions of the prequel trilogy taken into consideration , this is an average Star Wars Production with more style that substance too it.
These are trilogies so most of this film was set up time. As for the cultural commentary frequently popping up about the first order and rebellion "feeling" too American , I can't say the audience has it wrong there. However , it is not a bias on the part of the writers , as badly as they may want it to be. Maybe , it's just a good representation of how bad the divided real world nation actually is today. Art copies life and guess what if the quality of life is low it will suck in reflective material.
This is a three star film at best.I have seen it over six times now and it is what it is , Star Wars : The Next Generation.