It's not groundbreaking new cinema, it's not a steaming pile of poop...It's Star Wars!!

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2015)

I enjoyed this movie a bunch!! I feel that this film captured everything we loved about the previous star wars films and added some new stuff!! Though, as you may have seen in other reviews, it's not a perfect film.
First off, there are parts of the film that could be better. I feel that as far as pacing goes, there are parts that felt rushed. Parts where we needed to be in the moment just a few seconds longer, but were rushed to keep the plot going. But that's a nitpick.
Second, this film sticks with the cookie cutter formula that each Star Wars trilogy has. Here is where I'm going to get into the spoilers:

The token "tainted" character: Star Wars has to have that character that is good but goes bad. Because we don't have Anakin Skywalker any more, we have to have his grandson, Ben Solo (AKA Kylo Ren), be the guy who was seduced by the darkside.

"Bad Guy Fortress is Not So Impenetrable" - Remember how the Death Star was the empire's base/greatest weapon? And remember how simple it was to blow it up? Villains haven't learned their lesson. The Starkiller base, though a bit more guarded, still too easy to blow up. There are more similarities, but I'll let you see them yourself.

Now, this next thing is the biggest problem I have with the film....HOW DID THEY FIND LUKE'S LIGHTSABER??? One of the sacred items in the film is that blue lightsaber Luke acquires in New Hope that was originally Anakin's. But last time we saw that saber, it was hurling into the abyss below Luke and Vader at the end of the duel, clutched in Luke's severed hand. I'm sorry but that lightsaber was from there on gone. It was forever lost in the depths below Cloud City. Vader cutoff that hand that was holding it, and it fell to be forever lost. So no way that alien lady found it and kept it so she could give it to a perspective jedi one day.
All in all though, I really liked this film! Finn is great hero, and I can't wait to see him in the next two. JJ Abrams did fantastic with directing and bringing the Star Wars universe back to life.