disappointed

Rating: 2/10 (20 May 2016)

Like many others I went with highest hopes and anticipation into Force Awakens. The result was a rather shallow feeling. What did I just see? A funky remix of Episode 4-6? I understand the pressure JJ must have been from Disney's side during production. I also see the pressure the fan base is giving. But how can those crater-size holes in the script be justified, or at least explained? How can she fly off that planet with the Millennium Falcon and just run into Han Solo who has been looking for that ship for years? Please don't tell us it's the FORCE that has magically let things fall into place. That's too cheap for a franchise like Star Wars. The lightsaber in that box, the fact that R2D2 suddenly pops out the map in the end, the list of coincidences is endless. I'm disappointed, but I can also see where the whole franchise is heading. Concept-arted to death, produced without a soul. $$$ makes the world go round.