Same plot only worse

Rating: 3/10 (23 December 2015)

The cinematic effects are gorgeous, the actors are quite good, it's fast paced, but one leaves the cinema thinking... really? All this mega budget and they didn't spend a penny on the plot, as it's exactly the same as the original episode IV?
Let me explain: guy with the force grows up on a desert planet. Droid has secret message. Han is chased by bounty hunters. Death Star destroys a planet (oh no sorry it's more than one). Girl gets captured by storm troopers. Storm troopers - I mean really, 30 years on? Budding Jedi needs to find a master (okay that's early from episode V, but...). Kylo Wren is Darth Vader and he's being trained by the emperor come supreme leader. OK he's the son rather than the father but yawn. It's pathetic.
And then the characters aren't as well built. Is there anything that Rey can't do, or anything that Finn can? Where's the fantastic complementary trio from the original one?
Go and see it and have fun if you're a fan like me, but complain loudly too so they at least make an effort to have a new plot for the next one.