Over-hyped and Poorer quality Remake :-(

Rating: 4/10 (25 December 2015)

I went with an open mind that 'The Force Awakens' would be a good new movie. It wasn't :-( I never felt the need to write a review before but this movie is so poor compared to the hype I felt compelled to do so! Feel like I've been chewed up by a shameless marketing scam! The visuals were good. The acting was poor! The characters never really sounded in danger- or made me feel for them- no intensity. An occasional good line but mainly very obvious boring dialogue. Had read it was as witty or wittier than 'A New Hope'- Nope! Worst, I must strongly have the Force, because I knew the entire story and visuals- in advance. There there were NO elements of surprise, even in details :-/. There was also little chemistry between the characters. Occasionally an echo of a scene from Empire strikes back between Han Solo & Leia but hard to believe the director didn't set up better scenes for any of the characters- new or old- with all the fondness for those earier movies. He obviously thought he didn't need to- marketing & peoples hope would make that redundant?!! I'd been fed the nostalgia line EG that there was the 'Alien Cafe scene' .. Sadly THIS time without the catchy music or original aliens! This movie is a blow by blow rehash of A New Hope & Empire Strikes Back with a sprinkle of Gollum (same actor & production house) and a poor version of Severus from Harry Potter, as Badies.. & nothing done as well as in those original movies...Visuals only bright spot- good but opening scene with character Rey, but shamelessly copied from famous Japanese Anime, 'Nausicaa' I hear from an anime buff friend. 1/10 for originality in the entire movie then!? Annoyed!