A reboot by any other name ...

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2015)

A good movie in its own right, though casting of Adam Driver as Kylo Ren was hideous. Guess they had to have one pretty boy for the kiddies but there's more charisma in the mask than the character. A few plot holes as well but overall not bad.
The problem is, it's basically a reboot of the original trilogy with enough homage thrown over it to keep the fan base from rioting. Rey makes an excellent - if rushed - heroine, and Daisy Ridley commands every scene she's in - even when sharing screen time with the usually indomitable Harrison Ford.
Unfortunately the story also left us set up for a pretty obvious reboot of Episodes 5 and 6 in the upcoming movies. It was a thrill to see another Star Wars movie in the vein of the original trilogy, but ultimately I'd hoped for a continuation, not a reboot.