SPOILERS! My review / my BIGGEST problem with the movie / SPOILERS|!!!

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2016)

First off, I generally enjoyed the experience of watching this movie. Exciting, tip notch visual effects, fast paced, not excessive and over done action (as we often see nowadays) but beautifully staged dogfights, sabre battles, and other action scenes.
The writing was, well, okay...
The planet killer was basically a big death star. Very, very uncreative/ It simply looked and behaved like a great big Death Star.
And the general story, a 'nobody' is made into a hero, family connections, the force, its total deja vu watching this movie. Its the same stuff over and over - but that doesn't make it unenjoyable. AC/DC basically make the same album over and over and I buy them all! My biggest problem, which I saw as simply BAD WRITING and unforgivable....
Here it is (and I'm probably the 10,000th person to say this) Han Solo is murdered by his own son, Rylo Ken. Okay, fine. The killing is witnessed by Han's best friend, Chewbacca. Chewie howls once. The action continues. They all leave the planet killer and go back to the base. When they return, Chewbacca WALKS RIGHT PAST PRINCESS LEIA. The two people closest to Han Solo in the whole galaxy don't embrace, not even a quick hug! But Leia has lots of hugs and tears for a girl she hardly knows! This was, as I said, simply BAD WRITING. Unless, of course, there is some plot point they are touching on, like Han secretly surviving or something. But I think this was just bad writing.
How this was missed by the film makers. How they overlooked how bad it looked and missed the opportunity for a beautiful scene is mind boggling.
On the whole, this movie was good. Not great, but certainly good.