Ignore the trolls, people

Rating: 9/10 (21 December 2015)

I've never seen as many whiny Star Wars fanboys on one website in my life. It's like a bunch of 8-year-olds fell in love with Phantom Menace and Jar-Jar and grew up to be Hayden Christensen-like Anakin Skywalkers. Holy cow. Get off the soapbox, folks. You're full of nonsense.
This movie is a STAR WARS movie. It has everything a Star Wars movie should have. Characters, dialogue, action, humor. Forget the pattern to a New Hope. It is essentially a song cover of Episode IV when it comes to plot. However, we tend to forget that history repeats itself and that's as much of the Star Wars canon as anything. The characters drive the story. And we want to know where they will go from here. I guarantee Episode 8 will take them somewhere we haven't seen before. But any trilogy needs a setup in the first act. It was right for J.J. to make the first one a bit of deja vu, as if the Force was putting the pieces in place for history to repeat itself again. It's a tribute to what made Star Wars a phenomenon back in 1977.
Is it perfect? Heck, no. Does it bring out more emotion than any of the prequels? Absolutely. I was 10 when I saw Return of the Jedi and it's the first time I actually felt for any character in the Star Wars canon since 1983. Go see the movie and stop reading nonsense reviews ... including this one.
Go form your own opinion. You'll thank me afterward.