A disgrace to Lucas canon Star Wars, this film won't age well

Rating: 7/10 (14 October 2019)

This film was essentially a cheap rip-off of Episode IV. It wasn't as good as A New Hope because Luke was way more interesting than Rey, Obi-Wan was actually in it for a long time unlike old man Luke who was only in this film for about 5 seconds with no dialogue and Episode IV wasn't so feminist and focused on shoving a barbaric political agenda down our throats. Whilst it was a cheap rip off of A New Hope, A New Hope is a very good film so this film is still good enough for me to give it a 7/10, however that doesn't necessarily mean I'll consider this canon in the long run, that all depends on how good Episode IX is.
The positive aspects of the film were that I enjoyed the mystery of Rey and Kylo Ren, they made those characters nice and mysterious in this film, giving us a lot to think about. But overall the film isn't brilliant as it suffers from a lack of great characters, lack of plot complexity, a lack of emotional weight largely due to the insignificance of the new boring characters that have barely any personality except Kylo Ren and the film also failed to give the viewers enough backstory about how the First Order came to power in the first place. I know many complain that Rey was overpowered in this film, but I was willing to forgive that in this film alone (not counting TLJ) as Kylo Ren may have also been very poorly trained by Snoke and Rey could be another Chosen One for all we know so I was willing to accept Rey's power in this film for those reasons until The Last Jedi came out of course.
Han's death should've been far better for such a legendary character, we still know very little about the backstory as to why Kylo Ren exactly left his parents to join Snoke so basically for that reason I just couldn't connect to the death scene very much at all because I really had no idea how awful Han or Leia might have treated Kylo in the past. It's still a good movie, entertaining in many parts, some good action sequences, great special effects, a similar plot to A New Hope and decent acting but this film largely lacked the two most important things a film needs which is a great plot and great characters. All of the new characters except Rey, Snoke and Kylo to a certain extent, were soulless with little to no personality, of course they're going to be boring because of that. Snoke was a good character, mysterious and I hoped he was Darth Plagueis or Darth Jar Jar or both Jar Jar and Plagueis but unfortunately Snoke got very little screen time in this.
The severe lack of references to the Prequels and Prequel characters in this film also really disappointed me as I'm a big Prequel lover, they made this film for older fans who hate the Prequels, they played it safe and didn't get creative and fortunately for them it worked out quite well but myself and many SW fans of my generation will never love this film or TLJ.