It's Star Wars

Rating: 6/10 (31 December 2015)

It is Star Wars - what did you expect? A lot of folks are bashing this film, but it is a pretty good movie. Again, it is Star Wars: it is the bad, almost non-existent plot; the horrible acting that feels wooden; the ridiculous dialog; and the over-the-top special effects. Star Wars was always a mindless, action adventure with a ridiculous storyline and terrible actors (except for Harrison Ford).
The Force Awakens is the same thing: just by chance a droid lands on a planet with important information and runs into a member of the Skywalker family; who than just happens to run into Han Solo; who just happens to be the sire of another bad Skywalker; who just happen to fight another death star. The story is bad - the script is bad - the question is: does the eye candy and action make it at least watchable? The answer is - yes. This is on par with the original and "The Empire Strike Back".
Daisy Ridley is as bad of an actress as Mark Hamill is as an actor. They kept that same parallel of terrible actors playing the main Skywalker.
Folks are complaining about John Boyega, but aside from Han Solo and Chewbacca, I felt that he was one of the better characters in the movie. Oscar Isaac was the other new character that was entertaining to watch.
I didn't like Adam Driver as the villain. If the villain is supposed to be Solo and Leia's child; I would have expected a more charismatic actor who looked more like he could have been their child rather than someone who looked like Adrien Brody. He lacks the charisma and looks laughable rather than dangerous.
The idea that someone can grab a lightsaber for the first time and beat a trained sith is typical Abrams garbage.
There are a lot of bad things in Star Wars - most as a homage to the bad things in the original three - but it is a fun adventure worth seeing. At least George Lucas wasn't involved to make something worse than Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Return of the Sith - three of the worse movies in the history of film-making.