Repetitive & ridiculous

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2015)

I felt good about this movie up until the last fourth. That's when it turned out to be repetitive and ridiculous.
The first issue for me was the repeating theme of destroying the Death Star. After 10 years of waiting, how come they weren't able to come up with anything better than recycling the plot of a previous episode? What kind of lazy writing is this?
My next issue is with the main antagonist. I kid you not, the whole cinema burst out laughing after the unmasking of Kylo Rel. The character is the very definition of awkward and absolutely not fitting for a Sith apprentice. Giggles were heard repeatedly during his dialogs. This prevented any real tension from building up, as Kylo is an awkward, clumsy and immature opponent.
And then the main character of Rey. The most bland, overpowered character in the Star Wars universe so far for me. At 18 years (or that's what she looks like), she already knows more about ships then Han, is a fantastic pilot, learns to shoot a blaster on second try, beats a Sith apprentice in battle when wielding a light saber for the very first time and within 2 hours of discovering her connection to the force she already is stronger then Kylo Rel. Like, is this an unannounced superwoman cameo? Did I miss the memo? Is there anything she can't do? Did Anita Sarkeesian co-write the script?
The movie had many things going for it and had several positive moments over the first 90 minutes, but then it just fell apart in ridiculousness and badly written characters.
The only positive I take away from this is that this movie makes the prequels actually look like decent successors to the original trilogy.