Fantastic return to Star Wars, however a little recycled.

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2015)

First I'll start off with the negatives, the plot was fine, but it was pretty much the same as Star Wars IV: A New Hope, and small bits and pieces of the characters and overall story felt a little rushed. They sort of all met up and came up with a pretty basic gameplay as to how they would blow up the new Death Star which is now about 10x larger. They pulled it off, but overall looking back on it, it felt like it all happened pretty quick. There really weren't too many holes in the story and to suggest this is even a problem is hard too do considering it's there are two more movies to come.
The new characters are fantastic and I thought the balance between the old and the new worked really well, Kylo Ren was not as I was expecting but then again, it is great to see J.J. do something a little different with the new Sith and it'll be very interesting to see how he progresses throughout the trilogy. Overall it was great fun to watch and absolutely hilarious, the balance between tension and humour felt just right and the characters felt really well connected to each other. The movies biggest weakness was it's somewhat predictable and recycled story plot which all felt a little rushed, however it has opened itself up very nicely for major character and story development in the next two movies. Hopefully this should allow for the new trilogy to truly set itself apart from previous Star Wars films and perhaps offer a little twist as well, it has massive potential to be perhaps the best trilogy of them the entire series, hopefully it is taken full advantage of. I would give it a 4.5 out of 5 star ranking, it was a fantastic movie and truly very enjoyable, very funny, great new characters especially BB-8, great balance between the old and the new and lends itself to potentially being something truly spectacular in the future. I though J.J. did a great job of directing and delivered the fans what they really deserved, it feels very much like the original trilogy and the characters feel like real people again, I highly recommend any to watch it, just remember to keep a fresh mind and open eyes, and remember that there are two more movies to come, so if something is doesn't feel 100% just yet, thats probably because we're only 33% of the way there.