Yet another Abrams disaster

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2017)

If I had known this movie would just be a fan-service mash-up of the Original Trilogy (minus a compelling story-line), I would have saved myself the money and time I wasted going to see this turkey. The characterization was weak even for Disney; the "Mary Sue" character (Rey) had nowhere to go in terms of story, because she was already perfect. There was, at least in my opinion, no reason to care about any of the new characters, and while it was nice to see the original cast members again, there wasn't really very much for them to do. Of course, I probably should have known better, what with J.J. Abrams directing; like his "reboot" of Star Trek in 2009, I'm just going to have to consider Episode VII as something that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far away in some alternate universe that has no bearing on the universe of the first six Star Wars films. And now that I've seen what Disney can do with the franchise, you can bet that I won't be seeing Episodes VIII and IX (or any Episodes beyond the Sequel Trilogy).