Yawn

Rating: 3/10 (3 January 2016)

Episode 7 is really Episode 3.1. A few tweaks passed off as a new release. Great undertaking. Lacked screenplay. Get TV writers who can write serials. Even the day time soaps can keep it up for decades. Surely, there are some writers who can write well and keep a story moving for more than 20 hours or so. Why did I bother to go over the past plot beforehand? As Abrams's wife said, "It's only a movie". Maybe anything will please Star Wars fans. But this one doesn't stand up to the competition, grand or modest. Even Han was glad to end it all. Sorry Abrams. Your mammoth undertaking was missing a key ingredient - writers. Maybe a film is like a soufflé. It doesn't take much for all that work to fall flat.