Denis Adshead

Spoiler alert. If you want The Original Trilogy, don't bother. If you want The Prequel Trilogy Plus, it's fine. Is it a Star Wars film? Yes - but only just. It is, by far, the weakest of the last three and seems to exist purely to bring in as many favourite characters from the Original Trilogy as possible (we hear, or see, Vader, Palpatine, Luke, Leia, Han and Lando as well as Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO). It tries - it really does. But it just doesn't quite hit the heights we all wanted to see. It is, usually, fast-paced, although the first half of the film takes forever to get anywhere. The ending is..... OK. And that's about all you can say. I've seen worse. Much worse. But I wish it was just a little bit better.