Barely Even Star Wars

Rating: 4/10 (10 March 2018)

The other Star Wars movies all connect and clearly link in the same universe. However, in the Force Awakens, despite a few key characters from the original trilogy, most of the characters are new. There isn't the slightest hint about how it could even possibly connect to the other trilogies. The biggest villain, Snoke, seems to have just appeared out of nowhere. It is very hard to adjust to this being a Star Wars movie when it is unclear how the plot developed, where most of the characters came from, and how new, important planets just seemed to appear. If it were the first movie of the series I would say this is a great movie, but what I wanted was Star Wars and The Force Awakens just didn't give me that.