Looks great, but bored me silly

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2015)

This is a very early review of the most hyped film since The Phantom Menace, so there will be no spoilers and my review will be as vague as possible.
I won't give this movie less than 5/10, because despite the horrible script, cardboard characters with no back story, overemphasis on nostalgia (prequels of course were also guilty), the special effects are terrific, the cinematography has a fresh style compared with the previous Star Wars movies and the actors do a solid job with little to work with.
However, the bad news, as mentioned is that the new heroes and villains are very weak. The old characters come in with automatic gravitas because we already know their back story, but with the new ones we see lots of aimless running and shooting and very little else.
There is about 10 seconds of exposition for Rey and she's mentioned as "the Girl" so many times that I had to go to the entry to remember her name! I also find that there is a LOT of inconsistency with both the prequels and the original Star Wars series, but that bothered me less than the characters I didn't care about.
Of course, being a huge Star Wars fan, I will not miss the next two movies, but I will be going in with very low expectations.