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You can certainly enjoy this movie, nothing wrong about that. If you don't care about everything Star Wars was about, don't care about plot, character development, believeability and are not interested in how a good movie may work.

The list of awful decisions they did with this movie is amazing. Tons of plot holes and a complete mislead humor on their own destroy any story. The main plot is stupid, i'd rather watch the original Battlestar Galactica, which had more tension than this 2 hours slowmotion space-chase. Commander Adama, please help!

The poliltical agenda in this movie is just too obvious and awfully injected. This leads to the complete opposite of what Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy may wanted to include. George Lucas always included some politics in his movies, especially in the prequels, which are far from great, but in these this was done far better as in The Last Jedi.

There are so many scenes, that are a complete waste as well as characters. There are "surprises", which are just included for the sake of "making things different". The humor was out of place most of the time and felt like borrowed out of the Marvel Universe. In fact this is a streamlined mess. An obvious mix of Ep5 and Ep6 and left me empty and hollow, as the movie was itself.

Here's the thing with the score. On general standards this movie needs to have at least three to four stars, the CGI was good, Mark Hamill was great and you have a 2.5 hour popcorn movie, which is not as boring as Transformers, at least. But due to the total insult this movie represents it only deserves one star if not zero.

Some people say, that the first try of a new Hulk Version from 2003 was too much intellectual driven, which gave the film a too complex story and emotional background to believe in and not enough room for action.

In fact this new Version of the Hulk theme could not even keep up with the first one in any possible discipline. It lacks nearly anything, except a slightly better CGI. The cast was really promising, but the whole story is totally empty and lacks of any surprises at all. The whole intention of a movie with a believable plot supported by actors and good directing is simply not used in this one.

You can easily skip the middle 70 minutes of the film, because everything is so obvious to happen. Compared to the storyline of the first one this new version lacks of any depth and drama. It's like being told a story with a 10 point plan what is going to happen now and then and finally the good spirit wins.

So, what is good in this new version? Nothing at all. There is even no real humor noticeable, no emotional ups and lows, and we will never know why Tim Roth did all this silly stuff. I did not like the first one too much at the time i saw it, but in comparison to this new one it's a quite good movie after all.

I don't know where the good screenwriters are gone in Hollywood. For this new Hulk there was definitely none involved.

There should be everything in there. There's lot of action, the established character, typical humor and mystical story, excellent visuals. So's the concept that Spielberg and Lucas were trying to convert into the new century.

It's good to see Karen Allen in this movie, since she brings a little bit of the first Indy into this one. The action is well done and there are quite a few good jokes in the movie too. Indy looks old but still Harrison Ford acts like there were no time gap between the third and the fourth one. The CGI Action is relatively rare, since this movie is filmed and edited not digitally, which gives it a good "old fashioned" look and not the "Star Wars Ep1-3 clinic digital" look.

That's all good, but the script really is awful. OK, the idea behind it all is OK, but there is no tension at all through the whole film. You never get the feeling that there could be something really serious happening to the characters or the world itself. The final sequence is totally ridiculous and it lacks of any surprises at all.

For the action and the characters this film is OK, but it could never keep up to the spirit of Indy 1-3 at all. This Series lost it's innocence, which makes the first three ones worth a look again and again.