Save your money

Rating: 3/10 (25 March 2016)

I'd like to believe there are literally thousands of Star Wars fans sitting out there, desperately trying to like this film. Please stop, there's not that much here to like.
The storyline is almost a complete reiteration of the earlier films, has very little originality and is just...dull.
The acting is for the best part fairly wooden, in fact if the world was to turn too ridiculous for words and someone from this pathetic remake gets nominated, make it Chewy, who I suspect was actually saying "this is total cr*p" every time he spoke.
This film is overrated by about 4.5 points, it's unoriginal, badly scripted and badly acted, it's one redeeming feature is that eventually it ends.
I'm a fan of science fiction, and I know that the ratio between good and bad science fiction films is about 15:1, at least in my experience, so that's fifteen films ranging from "oh god" to "should never have been made" before I get a good one. That's a price I willingly pay, but trust me, this film is not even remotely on the good side of that ratio.
Go home, eat, play a game, feed the birds, paint a picture, just don't waste your time on this one.