Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2015)

I looked forward to this movie and was disappointed. All it turned out to be was a rehash of Episode IV A New Hope.
The movie was slow to get the action going. I thought I was going to fall asleep.
There is no background information on what has happened since the Empire ceased to exist.
It seems the only background we get is that Finn was raised to be a storm trooper and apparently, taken from his family.
We are told throughout the movies that there are always 2 Sith lords.
Where did this Snoke guy come from and how did he make Kylo turn to the darkside and is he a Sith Lord or the new emperor of the empire holdouts? How did Rey become a scavenger and who the heck is she? If she ends being Han and Leia's daughter, how does Kylo not know he has a sister? This movie could have been much better if Luke was in it from the beginning training new Jedi knights to face the menace of the Empire holdouts.
The big problem I have is when Luke is the last of the Jedi wouldn't he have trained more than one pupil in the ways of the Force since it's been 30 years since the Empire was defeated and Kylo seems to be younger than that? Was Luke on a sabbatical from teaching? I was around the first time Star Wars was in the theaters and it was magical because there had never been so much attention to detail in a sci fi movie before. This time, there was no magic because you've seen the trick before and know how it works.
I am sure the next movie/movies will be just as disappointing.
I actually preferred all 6 previous movies to this one and would have been glad to see JarJar again. At least he was entertaining to watch and reminded me of Gilligan from Gilligan's Island!