The Assassination of Star Wars

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2016)

My expectations were high in anticipation of the new Star Wars episode. The raving reviews and huge success at the box office made me believe this was the best ever Star Wars movie.
But how times have changed.
My guess is, J.J. Abrams will not be invited to direct a new movie anytime soon. He succeeded in hugely disappointing many fans with this dismal performance. With the flimsy story, the two-dimensional characters, the same desert planet and ice planet, the huge "gun", it's a bad remake of Episode IV: A New Hope, but then with everything much larger. The only positive aspect is the imagery.
In my opinion this team has effectively killed the Star Wars saga. And when reading between the lines in the George Lucas interview about this episode, although he retracted it later: Disappointment!!
I sincerely regret my decision to watch it in the cinema and not to wait for DVD or blue ray or free download. In fact, I think I would have been better off not having seen it at all.