Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens offers a new hope for the franchise

Our Australian team went out at midnight so you don't have to

Spoilers The core problem with Star Wars Episodes I through III was that everybody knew how the trilogy ended and that bad things awaited the characters you were supposed to care about. The result was three films that were all back-filler to explain the genesis of a killer. Numerous satellite problems - Jar-Jar, dialog no actor could rescue, poor casting - made the films largely tedious."