Was really looking forward to it, but left the cinema disappointed

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2015)

OK let me start of by saying this is NOT a bad film at all. It was entertaining and the special effects were top notch. But if you're like me - that is a Star Wars fan and expecting a film in typical true Star Wars fashion - you'll be left disappointed. See the prequels got a bashing form some, but I actually liked them as they had a true Star Wars feel to it. That is plenty of lightsaber action, a good balance of both the good and bad, and not too much Hollywood style humour. The Force Awakens was different from the first 6. The film focused heavily on The First Order, we didn't get to see much of the resistance until the final quarter of the film. The film had comedy scenes which didn't really suit the Star Wars style. Don't get me wrong, comedy is great, but when you have lines where a spaceship is referred to as garbage, the intended spaceship gets blown up, then the lead character Rey then says, "ok, garbage will do", you know they are just using cliché comedy style which isn't ideally suited for a Star Wars film. I also found Kylo Ren to be a very promising, bad ass Sith one minute. Then all of a sudden he becomes this unstable man who removes his mash and shows weaknesses, which are so the opposite of the evil dark figure with special powers which he was displaying literally just 10 minutes prior to that. I wish the film had focused more on making Kylo Ren the unstoppable dark force that only gets defeated in the end with lots of hard work by the Resistance. Instead, we just got to see him struggling in a lightsaber duel with a goofy Stormtrooper who betrayed him. If you go back to the Phantom Menace, Darth Maul was incredible in a fight against Qui-Gon and Obi-Won, which is how it should be. I hope they do better with Kylo Ren's character in the next sequel, he could easily be the closest power Sith to Darth Vader.
Anyway, despite my niggles with the film, I do think this is worth watching and It hasn't let down the Star Wars franchise.