The Force Goes to Sleep, and makes a Mindless Clone Copy

Rating: 6/10 (10 October 2017)

I enjoyed taking my son to see this, as we are both avid Star Wars fans, but it was NOT what I expected, and I am still let down by it.
This movie has almost NOTHING new, and is a complete carbon copy of A New Hope, but with some new young stars. This made it very boring for me as a fan. Kids loved it, but I was hoping for a lot more than a lazy rehash of episode 4 in brighter colors/effects.
Also, another major letdown was the characters. Kylo Wren SUCKS!!! SUCKS!!! SUCKS!!! SUCKS!!! SUCKS!!!! Did I mention that Kylo Wren ABSOLUTELY SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!???!?!?!?!?!?!
He seemed like a cool character(especially by holding that laser bolt with the force in the intro killings), and had the same appeal of Vader for a while. Then, they did the absolute worst thing they could do= committed the cardinal sin of unmasking the biggest villain/monster/creature/killer in his first outing, before the film is nearly over. You should almost NEVER do this, unless you want to bore the audience and destroy any suspense or imagination about what lies beneath.
We find out that Wren is a sissy punk with a baby face that looks like your nerdy lab partner in 10th grade! Why the hell did they go with this guy as Wren? This is the same abysmal choice they made with Hayden Christiansen's CRAPPY acting and persona in the prequels. God, was that bad!! "Sand is coarse. blah blah blah." Then Natalie Portman's "Oh Annie". Nothing says bad ass Vader like "Oh Annie!!" -- I thought I was watching the Broadway musical with the red-headed orphan and Daddy Warbucks.
Wren's character sucks, and the cheesy reunion of Han and Leah and the missing links/questions about Rey were just odd to me. I sort of enjoyed the boarding of the Falcon scene with the loosed creatures, but there is a lot of dumb crap in this film that did not satisfy old school SW fans.
Then Han is killed by Baby Face Nelson, with no real motivation or explanation, and now Carrie Fisher is dead in real life, so some of our faves are pretty much done. We don't find Luke until his ugly mug is discovered in the final moments of the film, and I just didn't care for Rey at all. The black stormtrooper kid is OK, but we are introduced to his superior officer(who seems cool), but like Boba Fett, is given nothing else to do or work with.
I would say I don't know why they remade A New Hope and lied about it, but I know the answer= keep stringing kids and parents and fans along with the same tripe, until you can milk every dime out of audiences without working hard, until they threaten to leave the series, and then we will get back to work.
Also, Disney taking this over made me want to puke and throw lightsabers through the wall.