Certainly entertaining...but quite unoriginal!

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2015)

Saw the movie yesterday and found it to be entertaining, but at times quite annoyingly unoriginal!
The special effects were (no doubt here) outstanding, but the story structure and other plot bits were just rehashes from the earlier movies, especially "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope".
Especially the end battle against the "new" super weapon. They really should have left this whole stuff out of the movie. Must have been f%@king Disney that forced it into the movie!
Also, part of the light saber duel should have taken place in one of the later movies. That way, it would have been so much more believable than the way it plays out right now.
I also found it quite irritating how fast a certain character learns about "The Force" by her- or himself.
Come on...did you see how difficult it was for Luke in "Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" to use "The Force" on his light saber in the Wampa cave?! He also wasn't able back then to use the "Jedi mind trick" ability.
I thought the villain Kylo Ren was pretty cool. The jokes were mostly pretty good too. Especially Han Solo and Chewbacca had awesome chemistry.
The acting of almost all of the characters in this movie was a lot better than the acting in the prequel trilogy. I think Daisy Ridley was the best of the young new cast members who were in this movie.
Anyhow, I hope the coming movies will rely less on the stuff that happened in the earlier Star Wars movies.