Rubbish pacing mangles an average sci-fi flic

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2017)

Take the original Empire Strikes Back, then strip away pacing, character growth, sense of good vs evil, proper, flowing story development and, most important of all, originality, and we're left with what is effectively a sequence of Star-Wars cliches without a reason to give a damn about any of it. There just wasn't any sense of menace at all in this, Kylo Ren being reduced to more of a side character with moments of telepathy. All this leaves an emotionless hole for 2 and a half hours full of countdowns to being obliterated by yet another powerful weapon while the good guys hastily cobble a plan together to escape again (usually involving one small ship evading all the bad guys. You've seen it before).
For the record I enjoyed The Force Awakens.