Decent movie, can't live up to the hype

Rating: 7/10 (26 December 2015)

I watched the trailers roughly a hundred times leading up to the day I saw the movie. To be honest: To me, the trailer was better than the movie.
The reason for this is, that there is something missing in the movie. I just can't quite put my finger on it. The acting was good, there were a lot of scenes that referred to the earlier movies, making me smile and get that star wars feeling and some witty dialogs that had me laughing out loud. At the end of the day however, there is no "best scene" that could be burned into my memory and never let me forget the force awakens. (Well, now that I think about it maybe there is one, but in hindsight it feels like that particular scene was forced into the movie to create that memorable moment, so it's more like 1 frame that the movie could be summarized in) Furthermore, a big part of the plot feels just like some sort of variation of something that happened in the other movies.
What we are left with is a nice movie that comes nowhere close to what I had hoped for.