Extremely Disappointed

Rating: 3/10 (25 December 2015)

32 years later we finally get to see what happens after Return of The Jedi, and we get this movie... I'm gonna make this a little short and to the point. <.<
This movie was OK at best. I gave it a 3 out of 10 only because the effects were top notch.
The villain cast was absolutely atrocious in both the actors and how the character was written. Especially Kylo Ren, who has got to be the worst Sith I have ever seen in Star Wars history. Who's brilliant idea was it to create a problem child with anger management issues? He gets an award for failing that hard, seriously.
The plot was way too damn similar to Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope, and it basically felt rehashed to appease the nostalgia babies who kept crying for many years for a Star Wars movie to be exactly like Episode 4. Well, you finally got what you wanted, hope you're happy. A lot of us aren't. As usual, rehashing what worked before has been the ongoing trend for the passed 10 years to make easy money. So I am not in the least bit surprised this happened, but disappointed that it did for this franchise.
The lightsaber combat was also atrocious. Rey has somewhat of an excuse since she never really used one till that day. But Kylo Ren has no damn excuse flailing that lightsaber around like an Ogre hefting a cudgel. Me being a long term Star Wars fan, this was too painful to watch and I was extremely disappointed.
There was also many parts in the movie where it felt like scenes were deleted to make room for cinema time limits. If this really was the case, then they should have split the movie up into parts. I would much rather have that done than jump the shark to make things fit on a time frame budget.
What jerked my chain the most, was that we finally got to see Luke Skywalker at the end, AND HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY SPEAKING LINES! Seriously!? What were you people thinking!?
As soon as I got out of the theater I let everyone I know not to rush to the theater to go see this movie. I rated it as a Red Box rental at best. Many people agreed with me and also had the same issues as well. I really hope they step up their game with the next episode, otherwise I have zero faith in Disney successfully continuing this franchise.