Action packed homage to the originals

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2015)

Condensed the original saga of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi into The Force Awakens. A tribute the franchise needed badly to help fans forget Episodes I-III. Like the recent Mad Max film it was a relentless fast-paced modern action flick (without the originals' grit that made the originals so endearing). Great movie for children nevertheless.
Now that JJ Addams has stepped back from running the saga, a long term view looking to add some original story telling and intrigue wouldn't go amiss. Was almost hoping that the newer, bigger, multi-planet- destroying Deathstar would survive; if only so i could imagine the First Orders' strategy after the Deathstar and it's smaller predecessor Deathstar were blown up was to use it as a distraction instead of just building an even bigger one.