Lets do everything "bigger" but exactly the same as episode 3

Rating: 4/10 (4 January 2016)

They blew up a bigger death star. They had an angrier Darth Vader impersonator. they had a bigger emperor palpatine with a more opaque hologram. unsurprising family ties for the villain were introduced poorly in the end. The Jedi had fewer places to seek refuge. One of the light sabres had an extra saber thing. A droid carries vital information that is critical to their success, but this time it rolls.
Overall this movie was completely sub-par and unoriginal. Everything was recycled from the old movies, and i can count on one hand what wasn't:
This time an ex stormtrooper was a main character Jabba the hut was replaced with a short alien version of Edna Mode Lightsabers somehow give people vision quests now At one point someone confuses how the force works Kylo ren throws light saber temper tantrums
When i found out George Lucas had a script that was all original and they tossed it out and said fück that, it made a lot of sense because this is really just a terrible shitshow with 2 and a half hours of pandering lip service to the original series. if you came to have your fanboy jollies jerked off (i'm not a fanboy which is probably why i was unimpressed) then this is the movie for you. if you were looking for original characters, exciting or intricate plot, or an original story, look elsewhere. This is not the movie you are looking for.
Why i didn't give this 0 stars, and perhaps the only good thing about the movie, which is sadly not enough to make even a decent movie, was because their matte painters did such an excellent job. The visuals, especially in the ruins of the spaceship and on the surface of the new deathstar are very grandiose and well composed. But that is the only saving grace of an utter piece of cråp. And likely the VFX department was not paid even nearly fair enough wages compared to the billions they're set to make for shitting on the entire star wars franchise. If you're going to exploit visual effects artists to make a worthless screenplay marketable you damn well better give them stock options you Disney taint sucking hackjobs.