Just a bunch of simple tricks and nonsense

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2016)

OK so the special effects are good...big deal. SPFX should be used to help tell a story not replace it and what a poor effort this was in terms of story.
People have been distracted by a bunch of PEW PEW PEW, explosions and a beach ball droid that looks like it belongs in WALL-E.
This movie is a simultaneous deconstruction and reconstruction.
It undoes the victory at the end of Return of the Jedi (you know where the Emperor is dead, Vader is redeemed, the Rebels win, Han and Leia aren't fighting anymore and Luke is a fully fledged Jedi who will go on to restore the Jedi Order).
Instead of the future we all thought we would get (and I believe were sold in the Trailers btw) we are back where we started in 1977 Han and Leia are fighting, Han is a low-life (and still wearing the same outfit), there are no Jedi because Luke is a failure, the First Order (Whatever that is) is destroying planets.
This movie undoes the Original Trilogy. Han, Luke and Leia now have no point except to give rise to the new Villain. Han and Leia are failed parents and Luke is a failed teacher...that's it folks, there is no more than that.
We are introduced to lots of new people to replace the old ones so we can all go buy new toys. Poe = Han (although more politically correct), Rey = Luke, Han = Obi Wan, BB8=R2D2, C3P0 has a new red arm so we can buy more toys etc etc The plot is a recycled mishmash of the original trilogy and that's all it is. Just because they swapped the sex of the main character so what? I can't believe a budget of $200 million gets you this piece of rubbish.
I am beyond disappointed in this movie. I wish they would remove it from the canon and give us our old heroes back as heroes rather than washed up has-beens. They could also give us believable new characters rather than corny jokes, a forced romance and someone who's instantly good at everything.
Just not good enough Disney and JJ.