The more water you add, the more Diluted it becomes....

Rating: 5/10 (24 December 2015)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Wow. Lot's of Great effects, some pretty decent acting out of newcomer Daisy Ridley. Excellent cinematography.
If you're young (say.. under 35) and you haven't really hit the Star Wars sagas - hard, then this was probably AWESOME for you! Even if you have kept up... probably pretty cool for MOST of the younger crowd...
IF, however, you are older - and actually saw the original movies in the theater back in the 1970's - WOW. Harrison Ford - Who used to be greater or more Cool/Awesome? Handsome, with swagger, humor and great lines... in all of his parts, especially Star Wars! In this movie, he JUST LOOKS and ACTS: OLD. Very sad!
Carrie Fisher - What the heck happened to her voice? She was slurring and sounded very old in the parts of the movie that she was in. Not so great a choice even in the 70's (probably mostly because of her show business lineage), in this movie she was: Pitiful. Sadly.
Chewbacca - How do you screw that up? It's an outfit/effects deal.. This actor (Peter Mayhew) was fine. Had it down pat and hadn't aged from what I could see of the animal/alien. So this wasn't bad.
Mark Hamill - OMG. AGED and looking horrible!
So, to summarize, the film didn't need all the tie-ins and acting parts given out to Ford, Fisher, Mayhew and Hamill. The film would have been WAY BETTER to be a STAR WARS BEYOND all the others, and a stand alone. Having all the old characters AND ACTORS back screwed this film. Too bad, it could have been great.
Oh; and by the way - blowing up yet another death-star (this time: a "DEATH PLANET") - REALLY??? Can't we figure out something else to supply the main plot and objective? And bombing/destroying it in the same way as in the first movies? Really.
It was kind of a tired, re-heated leftover infused with modern effect technologies. A REAL RE-BOOT (since that seems to be all Hollywood can do these days....) would have hit hard, fast and been OUTSTANDING!!
Too bad. It was really hard to watch our heroes from the late 1970's reprise these roles, while clearly eligible for Social Security :-/