It's hard to believe this movie is actually real!!

Rating: 9/10 (18 December 2015)

I saw the Thursday evening premiere with the highest of anticipation!! I was 12 years old when I saw my first midnight screening at Revenge of the Sith. I will never forget that experience. And although I've grown up and found how flawed the entire prequel trilogy is, the Star Wars universe still means so much to me.
Now for this first installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, this is just a masterful reestablishment of the franchise. I felt so tense during the whole movie. The audience was so fun. We laughed and cheered at so many moments.
I can see why Luke was kept such a secret because he is a major role in the movie. The very first sentence in the opening title crawl was "Luke Skywalker has vanished."
I would like to describe the plot now for anyone who doesn't care about spoiler warnings, because it's fun now that I can describe it.
The Rebellion, now the Resistance, is searching for Luke Skywalker. X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron has found a fraction of a map on the planet Jakku to Luke's whereabouts, but is captured by the remnants of the Empire known as the First Order. He gives the map to his Astromech droid BB-8 before he is captured. He escapes with the help of a rogue stormtrooper of whom Poe gives the name Finn, and they crash a tie fighter back on Jakku. Finn wakes up on the planet and runs into Rey, a scavenger girl who has found BB-8 and all of them escape the First Order and journey to find the Resistance and unravel the mystery of Luke Skywalker. They also find out about the super weapon of Starkiller Base.
My only minor problem was how they revealed the big details such Kylo Ren actually being Ben Solo, and the death of Han Solo being too predictable. But I realize that the strength of J. J. Abrams secrecy is to the big reveal of how things play out, not to what is revealed. Experiencing this movie with a fresh perspective was absolutely wonderful.
If any of you want to absolutely love this movie, but you still have problems with it, don't deny it. Just accept it and understand that we have got a pretty great Star Wars movie here.