A outstanding sequel

Rating: 8/10 (6 January 2016)

Star Wars is the most over rated series I have ever heard off. I only watched them last year in 2015. I started with the original trilogy, and I was disappointed. It was boring, in terms of story and characters, specifically meaning Luke Skywalker. He is a bland, predictable character, with no depth. I then watched the Prequel trilogy, and was blown away. Hayden Christian did an excellent job of playing Anakin and he was absolutely brilliant. He played with real emotion, and passion and he is the reason I love star wars so much.
Anyway, I then decided to watch the force awakens, and I came in expecting something like the original trilogy. It was very similar to the original trilogy, except it was faster paced, and had two new but great protagonist, and Luke sky walker was barely in it which made room for these two protagonists. It was a nice twist when Harrison ford died, however I think that they could have done it better, for example they could have shown in flashbacks why his son had turned evil, and laid the blame on Ford, on Kylo Ren becoming a bad guy to make his death seem more powerful. (On a lighter note, someone forgot to tell Kylo Ren that Darth Vader went back to the light side at the end of it) Kylo Ren seemed like a two dimensional character, he seemed like a kid having an overblown tantrum, I think in the future movies he needs more development to show why he is like this, although I feel they are treading similar steps as they did with Annakin.
To conclude this was an excellent sequel surpassed all my expectations and is the second best star wars film in my opinion (Star wars iii Prequel trilogy being the first). I enjoyed ray, and the stormtroopers dynamic and it was amusing to watch. I thought that they could have come up with a better reason for R2D2 being in low sleep mode, because if he was so unhappy with Luke leaving he could have shown Carrie fisher the map and tried looking for him. It was a great film and I loved the cameo from Obi One, this was an exceptionally good moment. I would absolutely recommend this to anyone and although its not my favorite film of all time, it is an good one and well worth the watch.