A good movie with over expectations (possible small spoilers)

Rating: 9/10 (20 December 2015)

While The Force Awakens is a great experience for a Star Wars movie, I will say as a movie it suffers from an expectations issue. Like many fan I was going into this movie with "New Hope"s that J.J. Abrams & Kathleen Kennedy would return the franchise to it's former glory. I believe as a set up movie for a new trilogy it does this in spades.
As a movie going experience this is a good time, as a set up movie it is good, but as a stand alone film I believe it had too much work to do. We had 30 years of time to fill in that left little time to grow the new characters. Many people have said this is a "Copy" of the first movie made Episode IV A New Hope. In many ways it is, but this is a good thing because we did not need to be bogged with a completely new plot that would have taken even more time to explain.
I believe going forward this "awakening" to the franchise will allow for the subsequent films to be better and grow the characters in the way that I wish this movie did. In conclusion I think this movie is worth viewing especially if you are an existing fan, If you are looking to get into the story not the best place to start but still worth the watch.