This is a star wars movie. FINALLY!!!!!

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2015)

WARNING SPOILERS
Let me just say that JJ Abrams has outdone himself, he has A lot to live up to, i wasn't expecting the empire strikes back or a new hope. What i wanted was a movie that lived up to the name itself. FINALLY after 32 years of waiting and having to deal with bad prequels and EWWWW Jar Jar Binks, we finally have a movie that we can call star wars.
PROS: Acting was superb, finally we rid ourselves of the dry acting of the prequels and gaze upon a already likable duo of characters of Finn and Rey who have great chemistry and character development. The two characters go through so much in such a short amount of time that they develop a great friendship, one the audience will be moved to. You actually believe that kylo ren is a villain, he feels like he is with the dark side, you want him to lose, you want to see his fall. You can feel his hatred coming across the screen, the young apprentice of the dark side will be with you all when you leave that theater i guarantee it. A memorable antagonist and memorable protagonists go hand and hand with a....
GREAT PLOT: The plot is superb and well written harking back to the old trilogies for its twists and patience, despite its fast paced in your face story it feels, the movie still finds a way to live up the title the force awakens, slowly you see the character Rey feel the force around her, at first she is afraid she runs only to see the young dark apprentice confront her wanting to find the old sky walker, the last of the Jedi, he takes her back to his death star impersonation to interrogate her, while he is interrogating her with the use of the force, she pushes back, she begins to feel her power growing and uses the force to play a Jedi mind trick on the storm-trooper guarding her. That is actually a flaw i will have to point out, she kinda gets her force powers A LITTLE TOO quickly, only experience Jedi can get or so we have been led to believe. After this( WARNING A BIG SPOILER) hold back your tears, a childhood favorite dies in this one. That is right our beloved Han solo perishes before us, i couldn't believe it myself. A tragic but perfect plot twist to show how far the young apprentice has fallen to the dark side, by killing his own father. He has cemented himself now the most hated villain in the whole franchise next to Darth Vader, he lives up to the name villain. Forever we will know Kylo Ren to be the sole slayer of Han solo forever and all of eternity. The perfect climax which drew us to admittedly a rather weak light-saber battle with some confusing elements, again how does Rey manage beat him, granted he is just an apprentice, but isn't he more experienced in his use of the force and his skill with the light-saber, I,m confused he was trained by Luke Skywalker apparently. He should have beaten with her ease and further cemented himself as the dark villain, but instead the fight sorta in a little way takes away his cloak of darkness. Which maybe does the title well i suppose because these characters are just now becoming one with the force and it would explain why Kylo was just a apprentice not a sith. BACK ON TRACK, the light-saber duel was tense you feel you could cut that tension with a knife, when Kylo and Finn are fighting you can feel the hatred and anger coursing through them same with Rey and Kylo. And then at the end, old Skywalker makes an appearance you can feel by the end with his appearance, the first in decades. That the force has awoken fully living up to its title
Cons: There are some confusing elements like the light-saber duel and how kylo ren somehow was dispatched by someone who has never used the force before or even held a light-saber, never had any experience whatsoever was able to dispatch him, again he is just a apprentice perhaps JJ Abrams was trying to make a point that kylo ren was inexperience as well by the supreme leader dude at the end saying i will complete his training does help the situation, but it feels so forced to cover his but there. Well sorry JJ you screwed up here, you managed to capture the tension but not the realism, the forced CGI effect wont save you. Or how about how Finn decided to suddenly leave the first order because he felt it was "Right", at the very least we were shown his character not joining in on the slaughter on innocent civilians in the village, and him taking off the helmet showing his disbelief and horror on his face, JJ Abrams was able to cover up some of his mistake there but didn't do enough, i feel Finn's character is hiding something that hopefully the other films will explain down the line as to why he suddenly left the unit that he himself as a child trained with his whole life, i just feel it was forced not explained enough. Again this star wars franchise is a lot to live up to its hard to tell everyone's story, but Finn is very important and you kind of messed up the beginning there sorry but no other way to say it.
Overall this movie is deserving of the title star wars, JJ Abrams put all he had into making this a great title for people to love, the fans of the old and the fans of the new will enjoy this title that we have been waiting for so long. Go see it, it was worth my money and dare i say every penny.