If you like Star Wars, skip this one.

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2015)

I am a huge Star Wars fan and I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but now I wish I didn't.
As many other reviewers have mentioned, this movie was not original. Everything seemed very rushed, and mostly copied from the original trilogy. Here is my summary:
"The main protagonist is found on a desert planet. A droid holds information desired by both sides and wanders around on a desert planet. A space scrimmage occurs. There is a bar full of aliens. There is a light saber or two. A father and son are in conflict, and the father dies. The "good guys" blow up a big round weapon in space after they witness its planet destroying power. The protagonist travels to a distant planet to be trained by a master in hiding."
The information the droid had was part of a map to where Luke ran off to hide after he failed at training new Jedi (as explained in the movie). I still don't understand why finding Luke was so important anyhow. It seems he didn't want to train anyone and he was of no threat being a hermit.
They have some "almost" original ideas. Like a force field that things in hyperspace can pass thru, which is kind of the opposite of the Gungan shields. The solutions was basically a twist on the Picard Maneuver. This weakness was only there because they needed it for the plot to continue. Which was to take down the shields so the X- Wing fighter could shoot the proverbial tail pipe of the new Deathstar called Starkiller.
The characters and the plot are driven forward by reasons that have no purpose but to move the plot forward and there are too many coincidences.
Character development was weak at best and jokes were misplaced or inappropriate for the current situation.
I began to think this was made to target young children held captive by action scenes, explosions and fighting, but some of the scenes are a little too adult for that. For example, the dying storm trooper wiping his bloody hand on the helmet of the other one - and thank goodness he did, because without the blood on the helmet we would have never figured out who the "good" storm trooper was... because the audience obviously is full of stupid people (the assumed opinion of the directors).
I thought Daisy was a great choice for Rey, and it could have been fantastic, but she seems to be able to use many of her powers without being trained. She not only can use them, but she can overpower the force sensitive trained antagonist (who I would struggle to call a Sith) on more than one occasion.
Just about every scene in the movie had flaws relating to the Star Wars universe rules established by the original movies.
I am very disappointed and refuse to recognize this as a true Star Wars movie.