All is forgiven, George

Rating: 1/10 (8 January 2016)

We have to give JJ Abrams credit here for he has done something that no Star Wars fan expected... he made the prequels look good.
If there was one stand-out aspect of Star Wars that made it so great it was its almost unparallelled imagination. Lucas created a hugely detailed and original universe with an epic story line. The prequels, whilst flawed in their over-use of mediocre CGI and themselves Disney'fied to a degree were still based on a deep, interesting and highly original story line. Abrams utterly failed in this respect with The Force Awakens.
It's hard to even know what TFA is even supposed to be. A complete and pointless rehash of Episode IV with bits of V and VI thrown in. Zero originality and by far and away the worst dialogue of any Star Wars film - absolutely cringe-worthy in places. Almost every scene or story aspect of any note is plagiarised from the original trilogy and reproduced in a hugely inferior way.
We all took George Lucas for granted when we saw the prequels. We saw the flaws and didn't appreciate the brilliant story beneath the surface, the original characters, ships and locations. TFA stands in stark contrast to this GL's brilliance... a pointless, corporate, plagiarised piece of unimaginative rubbish.
** TFA is probably worth about 5 or 6 out of 10, but it gets a 1 to balance out the corrupt IMDb rating system.