It's good, for a cheeseburger bought at MacGuffins

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2016)

I enjoyed this movie, but I approached it with the same expectations one has when walking into a McDonalds joint. You're there for the junkfood, not for some fancy high- cuisine. Considering it's the 7th movie in the series, I wasn't really expecting some ground- breaking movie-making.
The visuals are top-notch: everything is there in lush visuals for you to enjoy. There's plenty of action, well-realized, in the right dosage, punctuated with some "Wow!"- moments. There's no Jar Jar Binks or obnoxious kid this time, thank the Maker for that!
The movie basically has NO story. It's like they didn't even try. They just pulled lots of fan- loved parts from the former movies and tied them together with the laziest script possible. The lame intrigue is just a sorry excuse to move us to the next cool starwarsy thingie. No time is given to character development and bonding: they are eagerly shoehorned into predefined shells: young jedi, best pal, romantic partner.
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Starwarsy thingies inventory: Desert planet, Lush green planet, Snow planet. Cute even- smaller droid with secret message. Menacing even-bigger Death Star with an Achilles heel. Good guys planet blowing up. Darth Vader Mini. Gollum Maxi. Orphaned future jedi with huge potential. Reluctant hero. Space bar with weird aliens. Tentacled dangerous space monsters. The old character cast. Ship fights, lightsaber fights, jedi mind tricks. Corridors, hangar bays, tactical room vector displays. Flying inside the bowels of a big ship. Safety-ignoring imperial interior design with narrow walkways and huge chasms into which you know some character will inevitably fall. Wise old small alien funny-looking strong character helping the hero.
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And at the end, this movie announces the next by giving viewers a glimpse of MacGuffin the dragon. Oups, sorry, wrong franchise.