The force will be with us. ALWAYS!

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2015)

I am writing this review to clear the air about some of the things the haters are saying as well as to explain clearly reasons to love and be excited about this continuation of the franchise. I personally loved the movie overall but I can admit that at a couple of moments I felt an internal eye roll occur however neither of those moments was a deal breaker for me regarding the movie. First we wills start of with the haters. They complain that the plot is just like episode IV, or is it just like episode VI, they really can't decide...OK most of them say IV.
Yes there is a superweapon (one of my eyerolls, I thought that the dark side would have moved on by now) (Just like IV)
Yes a female character was captured and needed to be rescued (Just like IV, NOT! She practically rescues herself. Different story, way different actually)
Yes a band of X-Wing fighters led by an amazing pilot needing a team to deactivate the shields protecting the superweapon so they can fly into part of it and destroy it (just like Episode IV NOT! More like VI if anything)
Yes a droid is carrying vital information that both sides want-a map that would help locate Luke Skywalker(Very similar to episode IV)
Alright and that's about it... The rest of the story is more breath of fresh air.
Daisy Ridley as Rey is a different kind of hero than we have had before in Star Wars, very confident, resolute, a young woman, and STRONG with the force, albeit perhaps untrained? People are complaining because she seems TOO strong. However, no one knows exactly what her early childhood was like and was she a young padawan before her family abandoned her on Jakku? I think so. She's awesome, strong with the force and fun to watch, get used to it. AWESOME.
John Boyega as Finn is interesting/disappointing/and comical at times. But disappointing as to his character in the film not his acting. We are disappointed in him when he first wants to run to the outer rim rather than fight with the resistance. However you are inspired by him when he picks up the lightsaber to try to defend Rey against Kylo Ren late in the film.
Kylo Ren is an OK villain. He would have been better if he would have kept his mask on more, but I guess they were trying to show us the conflict going on in him between light and dark. He could have had facial hair though, Adam Driver looks bad awesome in his interviews with a goatee. However when he murders a very close family member that all of us love so dearly, who are fans of the franchise, we do now have some sufficient reason to hate him. He receives further criticism from downers when he is bested by Rey in a lightsaber battle, however, downers have to remember he did take a shot from Chewbacca's crossbow, he is not a full power Sith or Dark Jedi, and he is trying to convert Rey over to his side rather to kill her, and finally Rey is obviously very talented and has received some training which will most likely become more apparent in the next film.
General Hux looks scary and convincing. I don't like Snoke's name but hey I am pretty sure he is really Darth Plagueis the Wise anyway and will seem much more menacing once we all realize that in later episodes.
BB8 is cute, sassy, and funny.
Han and Chewie are great in their reprisals
Leia we haven't seen enough of yet but seems like will play a significant part in other episodes
Yeah so Luke only appears in one scene. Big. Freakin'. Deal. Haters. It's a good scene!
And for all those that say the whole story copied episode IV, yeah I remember when at the end of episode IV a young force sensitive youth piloted the Millennium Falcon to distant planet to find a long lost Jedi Master and present him with his father's lightsaber and say daddy or uncle I am home! Oh wait. That did kind of happen when Luke went to find Yoda but it didn't happen until halfway through empire and Yoda wasn't his dad or uncle he wasn't even his great- uncle. This part of the story is different! Way different! We have a young talented Jedi now standing in front of the Jedi Master who will now come together to rebuild the New Jedi order and at the same time be forced to confront the strongest Dark Jedi or Sith of all time.
It will be EPIC!
Good continuation! Yeah more superweapons isn't for everyone but I mean if you are going to strike fear across the galaxy you have to have something like it I guess...