Prequels come back! all is forgiven

Rating: 2/10 (15 April 2018)

Watched this again at home with family after taking my nephew to see it at the cinema. He enjoyed it but we didn't. Had to know if my initial reaction at the cinema wasn't just a one off. My disbelief at such drivel, walking out the cinema was palpable.
To be fair the first 10 minutes was good & the last 20 minutes too, so about half an hour of this bloat was worth watching.
I could almost have accepted it if it wasn't a savage attack on Luke Skywalker one of mine & cinemas favourite heroes, there isn't actually any good reason that he doesn't turn up in person at the end. If he dies anyway.
What I expected - a rip roaring adventure, starring Rey, Poe & Finn with some cool support from Leia, Luke, Chewy.
Almost none of these characters come out well from this film, and some shoehorned in ones take up a ridiculous amount of plot space.
In the deleted scenes apparently there was one where you saw Luke reacting sadly to Han Solos passing - there wasn't room for this in the final cut. Just think about that for a minute.
Apparently the critics loved this I can see why, but really they are pathetic for trending reviewing.
Imagine if there had been some real guts to the film, lots of things could have been possible. Finn could have died that might have been a big moment, Rey could have joined the dark side? & maybe Kylo become a Light side Jedi?
If diversity filming is the way forward, why not have Finn & Poe fall in love?

For me attack of the Clones is the worst star wars film & this only slightly betters this.