The Original Star Wars Concept Needs To Pass With Carrie, Mark and Harrison

Rating: 2/10 (15 December 2017)

Don't get me wrong - I love Rey, Fin and Po, but the incredibly tacky bar scenes, smarmy stuffed animals, overall bad writing and endless repetitious plot elements need to be blasted by the nearest Death Star as soon as it is charged and ready. The franchise is now officially in a zombie mode that sucks the soul out of every new Star Wars film before the opening crawl has faded. We need to demand the franchise be allowed to mature and become leaner hopefully strangling as much of the Lucasonian kitsch as possible. I personally think it's time for a darker Star Wars that still holds to the light even if that requires walking a tightrope between what was and what could be - the same tightrope they fell from when making Blade Runner 2049. It's now time to let the kids run with it.