This movie consists of nothing more than easily digested, brainless and derivative scripting designed for the casual viewer.

Rating: 5/10 (12 April 2017)

It seems obvious to me that Disney wants to distance themselves from the franchise George Lucas created as they have done their best to create a brand new, albeit similar universe which deviates significantly from the previously established star wars universe.
Unfortunately, after watching I don't hold a new hope for Episode 8 which from this experience will likely become another remake in disguise. Their obvious intention to recreate the old movies, amazingly almost scene for scene, inside their own 'new' star wars universe just doesn't sit well with me.
I cannot see how anyone justifies a higher rating than 5 or 6 (if rating it as a star wars movie) do these higher raters realise they have been lied to about this being a 'new' film? Do any of them realise the previous movies were literally torn apart to make this monstrosity called 'Episode 7'? Do any of the higher raters care at all? How can so many people dismiss the fact this movie was literally made to destroy the previously established lore for Disneys own reasons and be OK with that??
In summary this 'new' star wars is nothing more than a blatant re imagining on the original three movies (IV,V & VI) with Disney doing their best to rewrite the franchise using lazy and almost identical plots to those original movies. For these reason I give this a deserving 5/10 rating, an average rating for a average film.