Just awful - wish I'd never seen it

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2015)

Firstly I have loved Star Wars all my life, I didn't even mind the prequels (not including Jar Jar of course). I've read the EU books and comics. I was so certain this movie would be great and I was so looking forward to it I bought two lots of tickets, 2 to the midnight screening and 2 for the next day. After this movie I will never watch Star Wars made by Disney ever again. As has already been said this movie is a bad remake of a classic, there is absolutely nothing original in here, I mean seriously a droid on a secret mission on a desert planet, on the same planet Catniss Ever...oops I mean Rey a Force sensitive young person with unknown parentage, Death Star 3.0 and they still haven't worked out how to protect that main reactor...really?? And the scary thing is I could have lived with that but here's the bit that left me really depressed. Han Solo has gone from being a Smuggler to a General and a war hero, back to a smuggler and the kind of guy who abandons his wife and friends and then he's dead, and no one cares! Even Chewie is upset for about 30 seconds; all I can say is they must have good Prozac in this Galaxy. Luke goes from farm boy, to hero pilot, to Jedi to...hermit???? It makes them both look like cowards and these are not the characters I grew up with. This is NOT character development, this is regression and lazy story telling and there's lazy story telling throughout this movie. We're supposed to believe these two heroic individuals who always stood with their friends and faced the Emperor and Vader have run crying because Kylo Ren killed a few people and then they left Leia to clean up the mess. The new villain is completely unconvincing and throws tantrums, presumably because his parents never loved him enough or whatever. I loved the Originals because of the characters and how steadfast they were together, this has forever destroyed that. Leia should be running the government, Han should be commanding a fleet and Luke should be training Jedi. The New Order should be the Rebellion. and the new villain should not be a Skywalker...this is another I am your father moment and it's bad. If you take the special effects out of this movie you have a bad bit of fan fiction. No Hope rather than a New Hope - this movie has no heart at all.