Bad film, poor remake of episode IV

Rating: 5/10 (19 December 2015)

I watched this film a day after all of my friends who were extremely happy with what they saw. I was not over-hyped but after hearing my friends' opinions and being told that the film had high scores on both Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb I confess that I was expecting something good. Unfortunately I did not get a good movie, instead I got a poor remake of episode IV.
List of Flaws:
-Story is a complete rip off from episode IV
----droid has important information and the empire (first order?) is looking for it.
----girl is captured
---- they go save her
---- Death Star destroys some planets
---- Shield generator must be destroyed by going to a planet (from episode VI this time)
---- X wings go through a trench to destroy the death star
-The movie also had many references to old star wars movies, some people seem to enjoy this but I thought they added no value to the movie. Han Solo repeating some of his old lines. The chess board on the Millennium Falcon. A bar full of strange creatures and music.

The new characters were all laughable, Rey and Finn were both hollow and had barely any character development. Finn's crush on Rey is also very annoying, he only likes her because she is the first girl she sees after leaving the stormtroopers. This crush forces some awful lines such as asking if she has a boyfriend. They tried to develop Rey but they did so by turning her from a girl who knew nothing about the force to a girl who can Jedi mind trick and force pull without any training. She can also read the Sith's mind, which brings me to my next point.

-Kylo Ren is a horrible villain. He looked strong in the trailer and keeps up this show for the first 15 minutes of the film. After that he is little more than an emo teenager who is out skilled by a weak girl with no training. He is a clear reference to Darth Vader because of his helmet but he is much weaker and does not have the scary aura that Vader had. He destroyed things out of anger twice, which made him look like an immature prick in my eyes. He likes to bully and choke the Death Star Staff but cannot use his force against Rey. By the way, when he removed his helmet many people laughed in the theatre. He looks weak and a lot like some emo teenager from any high school.
-The biggest twist in the film was leaked and many people knew it before it even came out in theatres, I know for a fact it was on Facebook and 4chan before the movie came out. I thought this would ruin the movie for me but SPOILERS the scene where Kylo kills Han Solo was poorly done and the film characters were not even sad about it.

Princess Leia does everything she did in Episode IV after she is captured.

Luke did nothing but stare for 26 seconds.

The soundtrack was awful, consisted mostly of remixes of old star wars soundtracks.

The lightsaber fights were poorly executed and made Kylo Ren look even weaker. Even with a wound from Chewbacca he should be able to defeat Finn and Rey easily. Neither of them had any experience with a lightsaber, Finn could not use the force and Rey should be less experienced in it than Kylo Ren. He did not try to push or choke either of them. During the fight both Kylo Ren and Finn suffered from small lightsaber wounds. Has this ever happened before? I was rewatching lightsaber duels and people always either lose a limb or die from lightsaber injuries.
Overall it was a bad remake with lame new characters, cheesy appearances by old characters, bad soundtrack, bad lightsaber fights.
The only real good pro I can think of are the visual effects which were expertly done but I did not go watch the film to see lasers and explosions. I'm not 12 years old anymore.