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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
I'm shocked to read the responses here.
I thought it was a total turd.
Boring as F for the first hour where hey jump from character to character and place to place with no development, and the last hour a huge meaningless battle lacking tension, anticipation or surprise.
The director was the same as Godzilla, which I hated, so maybe it just wasn't made for me. I loved Force Awakens, but the callbacks in this one seemed forced (Vader was appalling, and R2 C3PO cameo simply annoying), and the deaths of all characters at the end was a relief more than anything else.
Did like the Imperial Droid. Only real positive for the film.
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Pretty much exactly this.
I hate to be a stick in the mud, but this film wasn't that good overall. Really bad first half and they tried to make up for it in the 2nd half. They got close with the increase in action and some well done scenes, but I found a lot of it to be pointless with little drama or intrigue attached to the action. I really thought it was clunky and poorly edited for a lot of the film. Nothing flowed most of the time.
Oh, and the dark humor from the droid was a good idea, but poorly executed. I think I laughed once.
Perhaps with a re-watching I would find it more entertaining, but overall, it was pretty meh.
And someone needs to explain to me why they created a character like Sol Guerrera (like Che Guevara??? Really?) with all this intrigue and back story, and cool mechanization, only to kill him off right away?
Terrible decision as far as I'm concerned. This is night and day compared to the J.J. Abrams excellently executed episode 7.
I give it about a 6.5/10.