I don't like what this film is doing to Star Wars.

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2016)

Return of the Jedi had a solid ending and to continue this story you have to do better than (spoiler alert) give us no context in A New Hope Reboot that just happens to say Episode VII The force Awakens.
There aren't any planets we haven't seen before. Jakku is Tatooine with war machines that crash landed on it's surface.
(Spoiler Alert) A Coruscant TYPE planet get's destroyed along with 5 other planets with the Death Star 3 that takes energy from the sun. It get's blown up in the same way. All of our hero's efforts in the Original Trilogy is undone.
The effort of our heroes being undone would be more acceptable if the enemy was completely different from the one in the OT. Another power arising as a threat would have been fine.
(Spoiler alert) The point of the Prequels was to show how a war get's started and how power can be brought into the wrong hands by war. The Phantom Menace starts out with everything being fine and by ROTS everything goes downhill.
Here everything goes downhill from a time where we are lead to think everything would be fine.
If this was a different story I could accept this but it's not. I thought it was better than Attack of the Clones objectively. What get's me is they treated the movie like almost all ideas in the Prequels were terrible so don't have ideas. Don't try to expand the universe. (Sarcasm) It's not like Star Wars has endless potential or anything right? It's just the same thing over and over again.
The Prequels made me expect too much I suppose. I mean we got Georges creative mind behind everything. We got PodRacing, Gungans (they're awesome forget about the overused character Jar Jar for a second), A giant war between what seems to be 2 disposable armies but it makes for some amazing footage, seeing what it means when Obi Wan told Luke your eyes can deceive you don't trust them with the saber fights, and the overall result ending with despair but a glimmer of hope.
I felt like this film made the Original Trilogy look bad in making it completely irrelevant.
Were there mistakes made with the prequels, well, yes but no one properly learned from them. Georges ideas with script doctoring and good execution that's how you do STAR WARS! That is how the Force works!
I "Hope" Rouge One is stronger with it! They need a film to distract from this last one for a while.