Flawed, Derivative but pretty Good!

Rating: 7/10 (17 January 2016)

At last a Star Wars movie with characters to care about again. All of them: Ren, Finn, Poe and most of all Rey is real fleshed out chars with a heart and soul that reacts and acts like someone you can relate to. Sure some of the plot points are straight from ANH and the story is so so.
And i do have some gripes with Maz Kanata, Snoke and some other stuff, namely Han being able to find the falcon immediately. Hux and Phasma wasn't good and starkiller base with that sun-charging thing was, well to long of a stretch for me. I mean without a sun how is that planet or any planet around it going to survive for more than one day without it. The big laser wasn't even necessary....
But other than that i really liked this movie. It has great action and humor. It felt like star wars and at last someone has the guts to make a female lead that is strong and independent entirely on her own. I mean she learns force powers more or less by just reverse engineering them(The real chosen one!?!).
Also Kylo Ren is great, conflicted and vulnerable. Cudos to Adam Driver for making such a complex villain work.
This movie has REAL filmaking, not just some double-chinned rich dude sitting in his chair drinking coffee saying "Faster, more intense" on a green screen stage.....
Rating: 7,5/10