Was JJ really paid for this? My money back please.

Rating: 1/10 (20 December 2015)

This movie has absolutely nothing new in it, everything was either taken from an episode 4 or from episode 6. I don't want to dwell into details because everything about that shameless copy has already been said in the previous comments. From droid with critical information, through a death star destroying planets and a small team of heroes bringing the shield from inside, paired with a lot of details and entire sentences taken from original trilogy, it feels like a bad teen star wars parody. I really can't believe Abrams was really given money for...this. Moment I've seen the plot summary I kind of knew something is wrong. How is victorious Republic reduced to resistance" and how is Empire remnant again dominant force in the galaxy? Why they were allowed to build a gigantic planet size death star, what was Republic doing all this time? Nothing makes any sense at all. Characters......lead character is of course an empowered girl/woman" so that necessity pretty much breaks the movie because everything has to bend in order to accommodate for her independence and power creating some laughable situations. I guess political correctness is more important than making your plot having sense. As for the lead villain (and I'm not talking about a bad cgi character with a carton name), he is just a teenager with dad problems and rage control issues making him smash his computers. Like most other characters, he failed to evoke any emotions. I was surprised by a lack of feedback from the audience in cinema, it was just a silence for the entire movie. Even the moments that were supposed to be heavy with emotions were met by silence. This movie just makes you feel nothing at all. I guess at this point, whatever you make under a Star Wars brand, it will be a success, right? Horrible. I am genuinely sorry I actually paid money to see this.