Star Wars VII is the worst film out of the current main 7 movies.

*loads blaster gun and aims* Alright, your additional categories look good. 1. Story: What basically happens is a young Jedi prodigy on a desert planet gets swept up into a fight against an evil Galactic order. The prodigy gets off the planet via Millennium Falcon. Soon, the prodigy, along with her friends find out that a giant, planet-sized weapon being used by the Galactic order is threatening worlds, so they resolve to defeat it. The prodigy and her friends go on the planet-sized base and attack, but lose one of the older of the group to an evil dark lord with a red lightsaber. Eventually though, the rebels find a weakness in the base and destroy it with a bunch of x-Wings, and the Dark Lord is defeated in battle. I'm pretty sure most people realize the striking similarity this has with Episode 4. Episode 7 is basically a copy of the old film, mainly to present it to the new Star Wars generation. Of course there are differences, such as lightsaber fight being at the end, and the bar scene (new Cantina scene) with Maz Kanata is in the middle. However, it can't be denied that the two films have the same backbone, but just a different skin over it. Now, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, and I think they pulled this off pretty nicely in terms of switching it up but keeping it the same. However, many see it as a little lazy and too over cautious. The writers didn't want a repeat of the Prequels, so they just played it safe and made Episode 4.2 . Even if the Prequel stories are flawed, at least they are unique. Personally I don't mind that Star Wars VII copied IV, the story was entertaining (like I said, I like this movie). But I can see why a lot of people who wanted a new Star Wars movie are disappointed. 2. Characters: First off, I like most of the main characters, especially Finn, Han Solo, Chewie, Snoke, Kylo-Ren (nice Vader replacement in my opinion) BB-8, Hux. The ones that seem a little bland to me are Maz Kanata (just a boring character, for some reason she has Anakin's lightsaber and fails to explain why. I'd prefer another diner owner any day- She's no match for the likable character of Dexter Jettster from E. 2), Poe Damarran (way to cocky, much like Han Solo, although Han is a more likable character. I also don't like how he seems to be gifted with the force, I remember in E. 4, Vader said "The force is strong with this one" to Luke, even though the skills of Poe far exceed Luke. Poe to me is just a boring, really good fighter, but boring with almost know story to make me like him). Captain Phasma does nothing but get captured, a really boring character except for the beginning. I absolutely loathe Rey. If you watched YouTube videos, you will know why. She is basically perfect and has no flaws. She is very skilled in pretty much anything she does, whether is being flying a ship (better than Han), Force (which she knew nothing about at the beginning), and lightsaber fighting. She's stronger than most males in the movie, which is unrealistic. Although Kylo Ren has been training his whole life in the force and lightsaber combat, he gets his @ss handed to him by Rey, who can immediately be good at anything she tries. You may say she is the strongest in the Force ever, but that makes her a very uninteresting character, compared to OG Luke. Also, in Episode 8 she's going to be training with Luke, but why? She's already better than he could ever be. Her ONE flaw is that she is unflawed. A very poor replacement for Luke, and the most annoying character in the movie, in the series, even worse than C-3PO and Jar Jar. 4. Effects: Star Wars 7 is a good looking movie, I love the effects, sounds, and the CGI characters look pretty good and believable. I got no problem here, it did well in this category. However good effects doesn't necessarily make a better movie, the first 3 had shjt effects compared to Episode 7, and yet the first 3 are better. But good job on effects, 7. 5. Locations: A little uncreative, as with the story plot. Jakuu is Tatooine 2.0, and the place where Rey sells her junk is another Mos Eisely/Espa. Takodana (Maz Kanata's planet) seems to be just a forest world with grass here and there. I like her bar, and the battle scene with all the rubble looks great, but nothing to eye-popping. Starkiller Base is your second Hoth, which I am actually welcome too a little. I love Hoth, if there' another one in 8 I'd be happy. But overall, kinda basic worlds, kinda uncreative. Prequels and Original Trilogy, but especially Prequels had much more variety. However the first scene on Jakuu was freakin awesome. 6. Music: The best word I have for it is forgettable, except maybe Rey's song and Kylo Ren's song (my favorite from the film). I love John Williams, but, eh, it could be better. The Original Trilogy brought us the Imperial March, the main theme, Yoda's theme, and these are just a select few from a great bundle of memorables. The Prequels brought us Duel of Fates, that one Geinosis song, the Anakin/Padme love song, and Battle of the Heroes, again just a few from a bundle of greats. I've watched VII plenty, and yet the only ones that stick out are Rey's and Kylo Ren's, and they are not even NEAR the others. 7.Battles: The opening battle was very satisfactory, I like the nighttime Jakuu and the ruthlessness of Phasma was nice. Also, Kylo Ren had a very nice murderous intro and also froze Poe's blaster bolt which was amazing. Great opening battle, just like Episode 4. Finn and Rey's escape from Jakuu was cool, but the Millennium Falcon part was way better than the ground part, even if these two taking down TIEs is unbelievable. The battle of Takodana was also cool, especially the ground part, I hated the X-wing's, namely Poe. The melee fight between the traitor and the stormtrooper was nice even if unneeded. As for the destruction of Starkiller Base..... I've seen it before. Twice. Enough Death Stars already. All in all, I know I missed a few battles, Star Wars VII does them really well, just like any other Star Wars movie. All except one battle, the MOST IMPORTANT.... I'll do that last. 8.Themes: I don't really get into the themes of films that much, personally I think the point of Star Wars is not the theme but just the amazingness of the entire story, action, and everything. But yeah, it's your basic story of the good oppressed by the evil, and they fight back although weak and have "A New Hope". Like I said, I don't care much for this, I'm more of a kid when it comes to Star Wars than an adult, I'm here for the fights and amazingness. But, we get nothing new here. I guess the film could really be called "An Old Hope". The themes are identical to Episode 4, and because it brings nothing new to the table, it can easily be swept aside. Still, I think it's OK to retell the original to the newer generation. But to the older generation, it's kind of disappointing. 9.Lightsaber Battle: I don't know if I hate Rey or this duel more in this movie. But being that Rey is the REASON why I hate it, I guess I hate Rey more. Here's why this lightsaber battle ranks last, behind EVERY fight in the saga, even Episode II. The reason is because it cannot happen. Like I said before, Kylo Ren is skilled in the dark side of the force and with his lightsaber, Snoke has trained him well for this moment. Finn, on the other hand, is just a regular stormtrooper who MAY have seen some melee training as we see he fought the other guy with his saber. No force abilities. Rey, although she has combat skills with her staff, has never used a lightsaber. Her force skills seem to be more powerful than Anakin's (bull shjt), but they are not in tune. Looking at these stats, it should be a definite Kylo Ren win. And instead, we get this.... Finn puts up a good fight. I don't know if that's really possible, imagine a DIFFERENT stormtrooper, say the one earlier with his staff, took on Kylo Ren. Ren could easily have killed him. The only reason this doesn't happen to Finn is because he's a main character. Eventually though, he is bested, although it should've happened sonner, and his back is slashed. Rey then takes up the fight. Although she has not been trained, she has the same amount of strength as Kylo, and even defeats him in a Force tug-of-war between Anakin/Luke's lightsaber (I refuse to call it Rey's, maybe Finn). I call absolute bull shjt on her beating Kylo in the force. And in the end, she gets the upper hand in the lightsaber fight. Now, this is a person who has been training his life for this, and he gets beaten by an absolute noob. Trash. Although the rebellion is weak, they can beat the empire/first order because they are at least trained in fighting. Rey has no excuse for winning this. As far as the location of the fight, the Dark Forest is nice, and the fight is fast, but kind of bland, with no real amazingness like we saw in the fight before this, Mustafar. However, even if the fighting is good and the location is good, the fight itself and the outcome is terrible, all other lightsaber fights are believeable, cause when Luke WASN'T trained, he got beaten. Of course though, perfect Rey wins again. Conclusion: All in all, a good film, even a good Star Wars film, but behind all the others made. *shoots DC-15A*