Decent but not Good Enough!

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2015)

So I was very hopefully that JJ Abrahms would do something great!
I dreaded Star Trek and I felt he pulled it off, of course he had an alternate time line to work with that kept him from destroying the Star Trek Canon!
But there was no such consideration taken for the Star War's Canon one of the most vibrant and rich universe of story's one could find in any book store!
Amazingly all of these Authors have managed to not step on each others toes!
Timothy Zahn, Kevin Anderson, Michael Wolverton, Jude Watson, Michael Stackpole, and a slew of other creative and well written authors have done far more justice creating a vibrant and rich star wars universe then this travesty of a movie that stepped all over the toe's of 100's of books!
The movie was a rip off of the original Star Wars, our hero lives on a desert planet and finds a droid with important information that needs to be returned to the REBELLION??? What rebellion??? They blew up the Emperor and Vader....
Leia Should be the President of the New Republic not still leading a Rebellion!!!
Han and Leia have 3 Children, Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin.... Jacen and Jaina being twins a boy and a girl....
They all go to Lukes Jedi Academy, and no they manage to avoid the darkside however a friend of there's is not so lucky. He touches the darkside and blows up a Sun with his mind! He then searches out the Sith Temple and resurrects a sith master.
All of this is very simplified known Canon and a GREAT STORY!
Far better then
Han and Leia have a Son named Ben who go's to Lukes academy and goes to the dark side and mysteriously starts working for Supreme Ruler Snow??? Who is Mysteriously a Sith Lord created out of Thin Air???
There was such an obvious attempt made to Mimic the original trilogy that it detracts from the movie as you find yourself saying, I have already seen this!
The one saving grave of this movie is that it actually has acting!!!
You do find yourself getting to know Rey the main character the way you found yourself getting to know Luke in Star Wars.... Character Development was what made the most recent three movies by lucas so terrible! And at least in this movie there was far more effort put into developing characters and far less put into special effects that it became a better movie then Lucas's three failures!!!
But it pales in comparison to the original trilogy!
Its a copy and pasted story its the original trilogy packed into one movie. They even copied the Death Star??? Its Now the Death Planet that instead of blowing up a planet blows up multiple planets with each shot??? Seriously??? Lack of imagination anyone???
And my last complaint is! Han Solo, who Harrison Ford said himself was too one dimensional return to being one dimensional??? Han Solo is one of the greatest story's inside of the Star Wars Canon his transformation and the path his life took was incredible! But he went back to being a smuggler??? Seriously???
Ultimately this movie lacks in all forms of creativity!
Ultimately this movie destroys Star War's Canon and for what??? A terrible story!
All that can be said about this movie is it has better acting and is a better movie then the last three movies that lucas did! It was nice seeing Tie Fighters and X-Wings it had the right look about it, the ambiance was correct, and the actors actually acted!
But for shame on you!!! JJ Abrahms for Destroying the Star war's Canon with a Terrible story..... You could have done far more justice to Star Wars if you would have just plagiarized Timothy Zahn's Books of course Disney wouldn't want to share revenue with some writer!