Solid Meh

Rating: 6/10 (16 December 2017)

This wasn't the worst thing to happen to Star Wars like some are saying (that would be the prequels) but it certainly wasn't great either. It felt like they simply took moments from ESB and ROTJ and copy/paste rearranged them. You had the base escape from ESB only here it was at the end, you had the confrontation with the "emperor" character from Jedi only here it was 2/3 through, you had the training from ESB only here it was the beginning, etc. Overall there were some totally terrible moments, i.e.) Leia floating through space that were laugh out loud bad, a completely pointless Finn whose entire sub plot could probably have been cut, and still no explanation as to who Snoke was, or how he came to power, or anything. Then Luke was a whiny coward and Leia had the worst smoker's voice imaginable. Overall there were some things I liked, some things I hated, and it left me not caring as much as to where it's going whereas TFA left me wanting to see what was coming next. Turning Luke into a ghost ... hey, where'd I see that before? Oh yeah, ANH ending... ugh. How about something new please?