Quite Disappointed

Rating: 4/10 (4 January 2016)

We saw the movie yesterday. We got geared up to see The Force by watching the 3 originals in the series, and the first Chris Pine Star Trek which we really like (also by JJA). We were ready.
As the movie started, my first reaction was - why are the good guys who won the war, and survived the Emperor and Vader, now the resistance again? I guess that is too PC, since if the good guys were in power, and the bad guys were in the minority,...well you get it.
And the weak plot gets worse from there. Han Solo has not changed. Really?? Why not? He was a success at the end of VI, and would have parlayed that into even greater success--remember he was a 'scoundrel'. Instead he is again scruffy and in debt to mafia like bad trading partners. Very, very weak.
Finally, as mentioned by many, the overall plot is a weak remake of the original. I have not been more disappointed from a movie, perhaps ever, than I was by this. The crowd walked out of the theater in stunned silence, not the cheering I would have expected from a great Star Wars movie. I knew then my feelings were shared by many.