Trying too hard and wants too much

Rating: 4/10 (23 December 2015)

I was really looking forward to the new Star Wars - not only do I love the universe it describes, it is directed by JJ Abrams, can you ask for more ?
The movie starts out as expected, the familiar "in a galaxy far far away" runs across the screen, and all is as it should be... And from there it just goes the wrong way. So many things are wrong in the lore and the movie just takes up too many clichés.
If the old empire has collapsed, the senate or the old rebel-army should have taken over, but it is still just rebels.
The rebels know of The First Order, but knows nothing of the new death-ray-thingie, thou it would take enormous amounts of resources to build - now without an imperial government and a galaxy to support it ?
For the smaller and even more annoying things, why does a man like JJ make the usual movie mistake, where a professional army cant hit anything and the rebels can hit all ? It feels as if Disney just stuck their nose too far out.
Why add a new character in a cool silver uniform (cant remember the name), and then just kill her off ? Bearing on mind that see at the same time did nothing to prevent the "heroes" destroying the oscillator (?)
And what is the purpose of destroying five plants with an over-sized death star, other than trying to outdo the original empire ?
And honestly, did he (JJ) really have to make that non-hidden reference to the nazi's ? Its so cheap and doesn't help anything.
I could go on and on, with elements that are just bad or out of place. The sum of it, is that Disney wanted way too much in a way too short movie, using old tricks that I would have thought most viewers would have seen through.
No, we still have to go back to to the first two movies (IV and V, should you be in any doubt) to find the best ever... Sad, I really thought JJ and Disney could pull it off.