You are warned, this one's not for the fans

Rating: 1/10 (11 January 2016)

I grew up watching Star Wars as an 11 year old in 1977, so my middle aged generation of Star Wars fans are far from being over the hill or out of touch when rating this awful hyped up rehash of a politically correct, violent, badly scripted, poorly executed mess of a film created to entice the millennials to buy some Star Wars action toys.
Special effects weren't particularly special at all if you consider the entire movie consists of bangs, gunfire, explosions,thuds,thumps and other action sounds coming at you from all four corners of the theatre for two hours.
Then the plot was just woeful. Han Solo was a failed parent, Princess Leia and Han didn't have a good marriage (can you call it that?) Leia is a General still fighting for the resistance but she really ought to be retired spending her days in the cantina playing chess and reminiscing with ET's mother, that Maz character.
Luke Skywalker our hero is a broken man, he lives on an island staring out to sea feeling sorry for himself like all good Jedi's do (they run away and hide right?) and his light saber is in a box in Ma's storeroom.
Han Solo, our original hero gets killed, lamely, by his evil son Kylo Ren (I am your father). How violent is that for children dressed in their Star Wars outfits going to see a Star Wars movie for the first time. Big mistake Disney.
The only one who genuinely cared that Han Solo was killed by his rebel pot noodle eating son with ill fitting clothes was Chewbacca, a real friend. Was Chewie supposed to have aged into a silverback or something, he looks younger? Stormtroopers that resemble the Nazi Reich, an indestructible Death Star with an achilles heel so the good guys can blow it up, and a protective outer shield that can be turned off with a switch if you just hold up a gun to the operator and say ''turn it off''.
Oh and Stormtroopers who bleed. ie human. I thought stormtroopers were mass manufactured droids so they could be shot at by the good guys for fun like a video game. More like Saving Private Ryan war realism now when you kill a stormtrooper.
Millennials you have been duped. The original 3 were way better.