Very boring and uninspired film

Rating: 2/10 (24 March 2016)

This is an extremely boring and uninspired film. The boredom comes from the plot and also from the pacing which is completely off: This is a 2+ hours film, and the film seems very slow, and full of scenes which are not very original and clichés (IE: "Stormtroopers attacking village full of innocent people").
The plot itself is extremely bland and a recycled version of all past SW films. There is not a shred of originality or novelty in it.
The film feels like it was crafted to make dollars from the average movie-goer. Not that Starwars was ever a revolutionary franchise...In fact as a SW film I give it a 8/10, but as a original science fiction film it cannot go above 4/10 (which is generous), when we have seen what the likes of Christopher Nolan can produce.
> Weak unoriginal plot, with no risk taken to make dollars. > Intended for the nostalgic and/or low IQ film viewer. > Lots of beautiful shots, special effects, explosions/action, again intended to hide what is in effect a very weak film.
Again, of course, I did not expect StarWars to go in any different direction. To desire this and expect a mature or original Starwars film would be too much. So I do not blame JJ Abrams, who had lots of stress on his shoulders to say the least.
Yet I just felt so bored watching this film. The worst part I think being the script and characters being replicas of other characters in the series, with the inevitable "Good side" and "Bad side", the darth Vader character, the naive force sensitive character, the "Daring pilot", the "evil nazi Fascist Empire", you name it, they could not have been more unoriginal.
I feel that there was so much potential to do something new, if that was directed by a more intelligent (and daring) filmmaker, that it makes me angry. But then again, I understand, the average low IQ nostalgic film go-er would be angry and it would not work.
Here is where I would have gone with this film: - First Order are anti-hero in film. Since Empire was pretty much crushed beforehand, they should have been the resistance, with overwhelming Republic forces, not the new powerful force. - Resistance is new Empire. The flaws of the Republic (explored in the prequels) are shown. That doesn't mean that the Republic are the bad guys, just that they are the good but flawed guys. - Less quick succession of scenes/planets/etc. More focus on high quality dialogue and characters in individual scenes.
Finally there is one big problem with the entire script, being that almost the entirety of the film is a succession of deus ex machinas (random plot devices) to make the plot move forward, rather than logical successions of well thought out plot points: AGAIN, no low IQ SW film fan will notice this, but the more mature audience will (I have, it was awful).
So in conclusion all I can say about Force Awakens is: ITS A STARWARS FILM, plain as vanilla or chocolate icecream, or macdonalds hamburger, without any added flavour or sauce. Designed to make money on a long franchise, which many think should have died long ago.
ONE POSITIVE COUPLE OF NOTES: 1. The actors were excellent. Shout out to all of them. They were very very very great. Despite working with that awful script.
2. The other SW anthology films which will come out, seem much more daring and promising than this. I just have that feeling that everything could be salvaged by these films, lets pray and see!!!