Boy oh boy. J.J Abrams! I will never....ever... forgive you for being what's wrong with Hollywood. Lucas was right.

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2015)

I don't have words. 2 words actually.Copy/Paste. I watched this movie 10 times now and it became increasingly worse with each viewing.
First battlefront EA being trash and now the actual movie is NO better. What the hell is going?! How can you mess up star wars?!
This is NOT star wars. This is sci fi with laser swords, laser guns and a bunch of kids running around pew pew-ing at each other. Ergo Battlefront.
There is NOTHING epic about this. The story is between half baked, boring and stupid due to how incredibly unimaginative it is "which is typical with most of JJ's remakes which is seemingly the only thing Abrams can. Always feeding off the creativity of others.
I did some research and what I found made so much sense. A piece of advice given to him by his father: "it's more important that you go off and learn what to make movies about than how to make movies (Wiki source)
That just magnified everything. TO hell with how we make the film. Lets just smack on a title everyone loves like" Star Trek and Star Wars and milk the hell out of it"
This is my personal opinion im voicing here. But this next is not.
The story feels so rushed. The story pieces we loved from the former films "EVEN the prequels" are straight up missing with exception from Han Solo (the ONLY good thing about this entire film) where he explains what happened with Luke and so on and so forth. Great. But the problem is this happens like AN HOUR in the film. Great. Now we get some interesting star wars feeling story. But it also ends there. For the first 60 minutes we are following around Rey. A scavenger girl who can apparently fight like a champion, use the force easily, fly star ships and more. Hey, JJ ... have you ever heard of Character progression ? because you pretty much removed ALL of that for the entire trilogy you got planned. Our" Heroine" is a joke. She's barely fleshed out. Super rushed and we get ZERO explanation to how she manages to do it all other than...its STAR WARS! Fantasy! Nevermind all the rules. yeah. NO
NO WE WANNA HEAR ALL THAT! I have heard people say over and over its a return to the original movies. Well its not. Not even close. This is what happens when you remove George Lucas from production and you have a bad director/writer who has experience with copying the material of others to introduce whatever teen actors.
THIS IS STAR WARS! YOU DON'T DO THIS TO STAR WARS! Take your modern movie making, gossip girl, Hunger games trash and get the HELL away from star wars. This is a franchise for us hardcore fans. Who love the story. The lore. The epic scenery. We don't want it for the fancy flashing lights. NO. We love this story to death.
Yet the story here is lacking beyond compare. How did the "First order" (which is a stupid name) get so powerful ? Who is Snoke?
Han and Leia had a son? Luke's light saber is back (EVEN THOUGH WE SAW IT LOST) Explanation ? Oh yes and I quote: Thats a story for another time" yes. Thats literally what the person with the saber says to you. Moving on to more pew pew.
Its pathetic.
Then there's a sin of the movie. Han solo dies. And by the hand of utterly dis-likable Adam Driver who's supposed to be this bad ass. yeah. He's not. He's a Darth Vader wannabe. A total cry baby who destroys his own computer when he doesn't get his will. Yes. Im not joking.
Intended? Probably considering the talentless writers. But here's what. WE DON'T WANNA SEE THAT. This...is star wars! We wanna see cool, epic story rich villains and heroes. Not frustrated teens with anger issues. I couldn't take this film seriously for 1 single second.
This film is for the next generation of people who have ZERO insight into star wars. This is NOT a film for the fans.
If you love Star Wars. STAY...FAR...AWAY. This is NOT star wars. It has the title. It has the fancy star wars things. But NOOONE of the heart and soul.
This is the most disappointing film I've ever seen in my entire life. I hate saying that. I hate feeling this way. I want to love this movie. But I just can't.
I gotta call them like I see them. This is not what we were hoping to get. The ending... is so horrible and so perfect at the same time. Luke just stands there. Looking all sad and angry. Then this trash ends. Well. Its awful. But at the same time. Its amazing because it highlights that Luke himself disproves of the entire film! Not to mention it's BS sequel bait. Worst Star Wars ending ever.
Most are forgiving this movie. Say that JJ saved Star Wars.
I believe that this is the worst "Star Wars" looking film ever created. Its one of the worst films I've ever seen.
I never thought this could happen. Not to this franchise. But it seems Hollywood knows no bounds. They have officially begun butchering Star Wars. making it a continuous money maker for talentless, unknown teen actors who want their chance in Hollywood.
JJ. You, sir... have officially done what many say Lucas did but truly did not. You have murdered, butchered, and mutilated whatever was left of Star Wars. You, sir. Finally did it. You killed Star Wars. Not surprising when you think you can direct BOTH star Trek and Star Wars when they've competed for decades. The Legendary, critical, mandatory Star Wars immersion is completely gone.