I think I saw this in 1977

Rating: 2/10 (18 November 2017)

I kept hoping the story would somehow deviate from the first issued movie in the franchise, it may well have later in the film but I was already distracted by online Mah Jong and didn't pay close attention.
Coming to IMDb I was astonished to see an 8.1 overall rating, but that will probably come down now that it's on Amazon Prime.
I would also like to congratulate the cast for not out-acting the cast from the original movie, in fact the acting was so generally stiff I wouldn't be at all surprised if they took acting tips from Jonathan Frakes and Wil Wheaton.
Yet no doubt the forward momentum will make Star Wars VIII The Last Jedi (for release Christmas 2017) a big hit, and it may be great ... then again it just may be a clone of Star Wars IV A New Hope.
Despite my intellectual disdain for this story I was a surprised with my emotional sympathy, I wrote it off to a decades long investment in the story, then again maybe it was just the musical score.