What I expected

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2015)

Just came back from a midnight showing in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Have to say I loved it. It didn't feel like an Abrams film. It felt like a Star Wars film. I have grown up with Star Wars. I was nine when I went to the original ( I refuse to call it A New Hope ). Empire Strikes Back is my favourite film of all time and I don't care what the basement detractors say, I liked the prequels and they get an undeserved bad rap. They're movies, they're entertaining, get over it. The Force Awakens has everything you want in a Star Wars movie. The acting was good as was the action and special effects. If you're a fan you owe it to yourself to go see it. If you're a hater you probably still will and then spend the rest of your time on the net complaining how George Lucas raped your childhood and JJ is a hack. Don't listen to the haters go see it for yourself. You won't be disappointed. Footnote. Daisy Ridley sometimes looks scarily like Keira Knightly.