Sooooo Boring

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2017)

Honestly, as I was watching this all I could say that is was really, really boring. It simply seemed to drag on with little happening. Okay, I've probably earned the wrath of all the Star Wars fans out there, but honestly, I'm really starting to wonder whether this new trilogy is really all that worth it. In the end the film really seemed to be going nowhere, and simply had no purpose in it at all. In fact the entire storyline really could have been squeezed into the first third of a movie by simply cutting out all of the irrelevant stuff, and in my opinion there is quite a lot of it. Okay, there were some surprises, and it did end well, but having to sit through this film just to get to the end really wasn't worth it, and just to think that I have to go and see it again simply because my brother loves Star Wars.
I'm not really all that sure if there is all that much I can say about it, other than it is basically the rebels attempting to escape from the First Order (read Empire). In fact that is basically the movie, which is why I found it so boring. They start off evacuating a base (aka Empire Strikes Back), and are then chased through intersellar space, before arriving at another planet where they attempt to fight off the First Order, fail, and manage to escape. Oh, and we also have Rey on the island with Luke attempting to convince him to come and help them with the fight against the First Order, while Luke is basically not wanting anything to do with anyone anymore.
As a friend suggested, in the end it is the original characters that are the best, and this new lot are simply trying to take the shine away from what were some awesome characters. There is no way that BB8 can ever outshine R2D2, and the only reason I didn't give the film a lower score was because they still had R2 in the movie - and Chewie, who is also pretty awesome. But these new characters, I'm really not all that sure about them.
Oh, and the whole idea of them travelling in lightspeed is absolutely ridiculous. Really, most people would know that in the grand scheme of things light speed is really, really slow, and that was something that really put me off the first movie. Surely the creators of this film were familiar with the originals, and would have known that they used the word 'hyperspace' instead of 'lightspeed'. Look, I'll probably end up going and seeing the next few movies, but I'm not all that impressed with where it is heading. Then again, I didn't actually mind the prequels (and I still consider C3P0 to be much more annoying that Jar-Jar Binks, but then again I'm not a huge fan of Jar-Jar either).