NOT bad just too familiar

Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2016)

If you've read other reviews you might think this is a total disaster deserving a 1 or 2 rating. That's TOTALLY ridiculous off cource. As other reviewers noticed this episode is very close to a remake and feels like a crowd pleasing effort. Haven't we seen this story before, what is actually new here? From this feeling the trouble arose as the movies most important and difficult challenge in my thought prior to seeing this episode was how to replace the villains from earlier episodes. This is were the movie fails the most, even in the movie itself one villain feels inferior to Darth Vader. He just dressed up to look similar to him and added a voice-mask, come on... The other major weakness is with the force. Here you can figure out and develop force powers and fencing skills on your own. A half trained Jedi is almost defeated by a storm trooper and inferior to a totally untrained Jedi. Feels like the character development was rushed. And last of my complaints, Why so ridiculously little Luke Skywalker? not even one word of dialog. There are other minor things I didn't approve of but no big deal. Effects was good but looked and felt same as old episodes, were they leftovers? Liked the more serious light saber duels. Loved the music. I wish next movie takes more risks, focus more on character development and gives us something new instead of this old-new-remake approach. Best of luck with the villains, they are gonna need it.