A flawed ride through the Star Wars theme park

Rating: 6/10 (18 December 2015)

For fans of the initial trilogy, from the 40-ish age group: I think you'd be better served by stopping after seeing the trailer, any way your imagination would take you would be better than the movie itself. This is not the Star Wars movie you are looking for...
The light side:
1.It's a big screen movie in the Star Wars universe 2.Charming performance from Daisy Ridley and a good one from John Boyega 3.A few genuinely funny moments and considerate winks to the fan base 4.Since Disney is decided to squeeze every penny out of this license, we will have plenty of SW movies in the next few years, some of which might accidentally happen to be good
The dark side:
1.Generic, reused story with lots of things served "as is", suspended and without context, with little to no development throughout the movie 2.Extra generic, copycat villains, their characterization being done with the heaviest and clumsiest of hands, sabotaging any belief in their motivation and therefore in the premises of the conflict 3.Arbitrary plot changes and uneven flow of the story 4.A lot of other smaller stuff, not even worth mentioning
I'm amazed that from all the available material from the Star Wars expanded universe, with amazing writers like Matthew Stover, Timothy Zahn, Michael Stackpole, etc and with all the brilliant people involved in the movie, this was the story they came up with.
Overall evaluation of "Star Wars: The force awakens": a generic action movie with a badly written story but with the Star Wars logo, props and actors in it.