It was so good at the beginning, but ...

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2015)

I don't remember any other movie with such a potential that while looking absolutely promising at the beginning was more and more falling steep down to the level of garbage until the end finally came.
**SPOILERS AHEAD**
At first 5 minutes you meet the main villain - knight wearing a mask and cross light saber - looking mysteriously and tough at the same time, ready to kill and use his strong force. This is good approach as you don't meet the main villain after like an hour as you did in episode II. Additionally there is a storm-trooper, who decides after seeing his fella got shot to escape from villains and saves a rebel pilot, who knows something about a map showing whereabouts of the last Jedi.
This set up was really good and Abrams could have made a fortune out of it, but what does he do? He spoils it entirely.
The first issue are the storm-troopers who look like idiots with plastic around their bodies and toy pistols. Episode III in spite of its cons was better here as it managed to portray the clone army like regular soldiers with camouflage when deployed in specific terrain and mature guns and tactics. You can consider it a trifle, but I haven't started yet.
After a while you meet the heroine, who is beautiful but uninteresting. She is another tough life experienced girl but she's really something, as she can fly a ship without experience like a vet and escapes from tie fighters, fixes everything in range and is incredibly good in fighting of any kind. She teems up with ex storm-trooper and meets Han Solo and his hairy fella. With these guys together I have seen some completely meaningless scenes, as they fight with two gangs and unleashed monsters in Millennium Falcon for example, which doesn't contribute to the story in any way.
This is the place, where the movie already feels weird, because story is stuck. The villains are searching for the map, but nothing much is really happening. Our good team fights bad guys here and there and manages to escape every time with incredible luck and some out of place jokes.
To make things bad you learn, that the sith knight is a son of Han and Leia, whom Luke taught in using the force, but got seduced by some sith (you see him only as huge hologram and never find out, what is his story) and that they feel the good is still inside him. This kind of removes part of the mystery around him, which is not appropriate at this time and it deserves at least revelation about reasons, why he turned dark side or what is his story, but you never find out, so it looks very shallow. To screw things completely up, the sith knight takes off his mask in the middle of the movie. OK, at least show us someone, who looks really bad and determined. But what the heck have I seen? I have seen a kid who looks like professor Snape in his twenties!!! Weak looking child with shovel face. That act completely removes his aura and I wasn't able to see him as the menacing hero any more.
Film starts to be really ridiculous now. The First order (villains) looks exactly like Nazis - with their black uniforms, stupid looking caps, wannabe strict faces, red-black flags and their panzer faust" greetings. The moment, where I was really laughing how embarrassing it has become, was the speech of general Hux, who was trying to look like Hitler as much as possible. They want to destroy the rebels, but I didn't see any reason to do that, there is no objective, no strategy, they just want to destroy their planets with another death star. Yeah again. When you don't have new ideas, make the things right by making them 20 times bigger. But why did villains want to destroy them, why they hate the rebels so bad?
Our team led by Han Solo arrives at rebel base after embarrassing meeting with general Leia (who looks absolutely uninteresting – kind of reminds me fourth Indiana Jones – guess why) goes to the rebel base and they somehow discover the plans of first order right away. After this the film becomes another movie with search and destroy objective - mission impossible goal, which you know they will complete and will save the galaxy. I haven't said that but the story is really predictable from the beginning and there probably wasn't single key surprising moment. So it is no surprise, when the rebels destroy death star.
What might be surprising is that storm trooper and the girl, both totally untrained in using the force, give the sith knight a hard time fighting him with light saber and he loses eventually. Are you kidding me?? In both prequels and original movies you see that to become good with saber one must be trained extensively, but our heroes do not need that – it was their second time holding light saber and the girl defeats trained sith ? Why didn't he at least use the force against them?
The end was so boring and laughable that I wanted to walk away as soon as possible. According to the map, the girl finds Luke Skywalker standing on top of the hill on some abandoned rocky island (looks like he was standing there for ages) and gives him light saber tribute. What was the reason Luke quit teaching, just one youngling turned the dark side, is it enough to let anything go? I don't believe that. And is the arrival of the girl with sword enough to bring Luke back? I don't believe that either.
**END OF SPOILERS**
This movie is full of cliché and is so predictable and uninteresting, that I can't recommend it to anyone.