Lifelong Star Wars fan review

Rating: 1/10 (19 December 2015)

The movie was not terrible. It was decent and actually not boring so that is good. It was not, however, a Star Wars movie. It was a fan film and a remake with no actual storytelling. At least the prequels told a complex story of how a good man turns evil and how a democratic republic turns into an evil empire. (It happens in the real world. Good Science Fiction usually mirrors reality.) Casual viewers may like it a lot, but it contains none of the elements that made the six other movies so memorable (and many real fans love all six.) There was no state of the art special effects scene like the Coruscant speeder chase or the AT-AT attack, no amazing new score like attacking the 2nd death star or staring at the twin suns, no awesome villain like Darth Vader or General Grevious, no emotional scenes like the order 66 deaths or Vader being Luke's father, and no epic light saber battle like Darth Maul or Count Dooku. The only thing it had going for it was nostalgia...Same old fighting spaceships, same old music, same old actors. The reason I rate this movie as awful is because this movie shows us that without George Lucas, we will never get to see the real sequel trilogy. Instead we are getting reboots and homages which may be watchable, but they are not Star Wars.