A movie of two halves

Rating: 1/10 (2 January 2018)

Just returned from viewing this movie in Imax and don't yet know what to make of it. Firstly, it's long. Far, far too long. The movie, and the viewers appreciation of it, would've been greatly improved had it been cut by 45minutes - the first 45minutes. At no time could I truthfully say that I had a clue as to what was going on: the plot is such a mess. Not helped by the Rose character's speech being totally incomprehensible, a common problem with Asian Americans (try making sense of Lucy Liu in the otherwise excellent Elementary). Chewbacca (this passes the spellchecker!) is supposed to be incomprehensible, but then, he's a Wooky, not a human. And all those pointless cute little critters that'll scare most children, what's all that about? Aimed at pre-adolescents, there are sufficiently numerous explosions to keep most interested at least during the performance but don't expect this cash cow to become a classic. A generous 5/10 as the music, coffee and nachos were very good.