You can't make up for the lack of story and plot.

Rating: 5/10 (16 February 2016)

This film looks good but the story just falls flat and the editing in uneven.
It starts off well on Jakku but after the 1st act it's all down hill.
Acting wise, Rey was great, Poe as well, didn't much care for the rest and that includes the oldies, who would have been better served being left out of the story.
Kylo Ren is unconvincing as an antagonist, he has no clear motives and the First Order is never probably set up, yet another whiny baddie.
Kasdan really failed to deliver here, which is disappointing, I can't image JJ helped as he has no idea about story.
The third act is a massive bore-fest, yet another Death Star, really? Is that the best they could come up with? I had Maz Kantana and all the scenes on her planet.
All in all, it's OK, but there's just no story here and when there's no story there is no point. This is a facsimile of the A New Hope merged with Empire Strikes Back and it has none of of the impact of either. This is what you get when you have a filmmaker and a writer who have effectively, nothing to say at all.