Reminded me too much of Lukes journey in the original star wars (There are spoilers)

Rating: 3/10 (23 December 2015)

Most of the movie seemed almost to follow episode IV point for point. Much like the new Jurassic World did to Jurassic Park. Sure there were a few different twists but in both of them the wise mentor dies. The killing of the mentor in this movie however kills any chance of writing movies about any of the book series because that character is central in almost all of them. Plus the name of Han and Leia's son in the movie is the name of Luke and Mara's kid in the books. Han and Leia's son who goes bad in the books must make sacrifices, which the son in the movie does as well. But that is as close to the books as it gets. the new Luke discovering their twin by "accident" happens much sooner than Luke discovered Leia in the original series.
The only good part about this movie was the special effects, but even the new locations look like they were blueprinted from the first 6 movies and then changed a little to try to make them look "new".
The fact that someone who touched a lightsaber for the first time can defeat someone trained for a long period of time by a master also raises into question how Luke was unable to capture and/or defeat the new dark side apprentice. This is the same for Luke beating vader in episode 5, someone growing up outside training defeats the one born into training. Another copy. They did not really introduce any new force powers because the Emperor in the original series could also detect directions of thought. Why the Khyro or whoever he is did not use any of his trained force powers on the girl in their lightsaber fight is beyond me. She has no clue what she is doing and he knows lots of tricks. Just too fake for me. He could have used those tricks and still captured her instead of killing her. This tells me there is no real mystery about how the battle between the two would end after her training is over.
Going back to the plot, hero found on desert, hero does not want to leave. Luke/new hero drawn out by quest. Hero leaves desert on millennium falcon (never in books does this get stolen for any length of time/there is never any space between the book series that this could happen) new hero meets han/chewie and they convince han/chewie to help them. new hero meets rebellion. new hero helps rebellion destroy planet destroying machine. one twist, machine destroyed four planets instead of one.
These are most of the reasons I did not enjoy the new Star Wars and will not be seeing the next ones.