I'm not exaggerating when I say this: This movie is terrible

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2015)

I'm just going to get right to the points that made this movie bad. In no specific order, here's what's wrong with Star Wars: The force Awakens:
1. Kylo-Ren, the main villain, is a wimp.
He seemed pretty bad*** until they ruined him by taking his mask off and revealing he was an insecure wimp (who even looked like a wimp). Obviously they wanted to get who he is out of the way before he did you know what to you know who, but it was just done so poorly. And BTW, his scene with Han Solo was WAAY too predictable.
Throughout the original trilogy, there wasn't a single time when you thought Vader wasn't a bad***. He only showed some emotion/weakness towards the end of Return of the Jedi when he's talking to captured Luke and then once he's defeated by Luke.
Also, Kylo-Ren idolizes Vader, but yet Vader turned good at the end of Return of the Jedi, and his ghost is actually around at the end of ROTJ, so he could have had direct contact with grandpa Vader. *scratches head*
Also, can I say HORRIBLE casting. That weak blank expression just doesn't do it for me, sorry.
2. Kylo-Ren can use the force to push people back or stop them from moving .... but only sometimes.
If he could actually just do that, why didn't he do it to Finn when they were fighting with sabers? Why did he allow Rey to regroup and get back to fighting him if he could just fling her across the forest again? No explanation ....
3. Captain-Phasma, another one of the main villains, is incompetent and weak.
Phasma is a storm trooper captain who oversees the invasion and slaughter of a village on Jakku at the start of the film, only she's not very villainous.
First, she fails to see the potential of Fin's insubordination, allowing him to escape. Then, she's quickly and easily captured by Han and the gang. She's then forced to lower the shields on the First Order's multi-trillion dollar new Death Star, which is their primary weapon against the resistance fighters, with LITTLE TO NO RESISTANCE.
The whole getting captured in two seconds completely zapped any potential of being a bad***/mysterious villain out of her. She should be a captain for a reason. Any real Imperial captain should be ready to die for what they're doing. The fact that she lowered the shields so quickly showed she had no real conviction for what she was doing, and her capture showed incompetence.
4. Harrison Ford just seems too old and his meeting with Fischer was awkward.
Throughout the movie, Han is involved in action scenes, but there's just this vibe that Harrison is just not up to it and he just seems too old. There's simply no vigor there. It's really noticeable and begs the question why Disney didn't buy the SW franchise in the 90's, so at least the original actors weren't pushing 80.
His meeting with Princess Leia, now General Leia, is awkward and just doesn't feel right. It could just be that they're too old, but I'd rather think that it's just BAD DIRECTING. *cough**Abraham*cough*
5. The directing is bad, and it's reflected in the bad acting.
John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Ford's acting were just not believable. Isaac throwing his voice to make himself sound like a tough guy is so obvious. When acting and directing is actually good, you don't really notice that actors are acting.
I feel like Harrison was simply playing himself, and they just labeled him Han Solo.
I will admit that Daisy Ridley did a great job as Rey, which indicates that if the movie had a better director she could have been an Oscar nominee.
6. A random storm trooper has a weapon that can fight/withstand a light saber.
Uh, OK? No explanation whatsoever ...
6. The Millennium Falcon's introduction was terrible, and .... it doesn't need keys ...
The way they threw the Falcon into the movie was done poorly. They couldn't have come up with something better than it just hanging out in the sand waiting for someone to hop into it and fly off in it? I don't know, but the alien dude who owned the Millennium Falcon seemed like a pretty shady character to me, which would indicate that he would be way too suspicious of others to leave the Falcon unattended, waiting to be flown off the planet by anyone who wanted to hop on board and fly away in it.
7. CGI ruins every movie, and Star Wars is no exception.
Come on, the original Star Wars had real set props and a real Millennium Falcon, could they not build another one? Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises has spoiled me WAAAY too much. I HATED Maz Kanata because of the CGI.
8. The movie should have ended before they found Luke Skywalker.
Not showing Luke at the end would have left some mystery to the movie. They should have cut to the credits as Rey hit light speed in the Falcon. At the end of Empire Strikes Back, they don't just show Han frozen in Java's Palace.
I just feel like they had to show Luke to give him credit for actually being in the movie, but he's just some guy hanging out at the top of a mountain who looks like a confused homeless guy once they show his face. SUSPENSE ZAPPED.
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This movie was terrible from beginning to end. Any potential suspense was ruined and everything was revealed too quickly. The Falcon and Harrison's introduction were poorly thought out. The villains suck, the acting sucks, everything just sucked. I could literally keep going, huge disappointment.