Can't compare to the original 6 and Rogue One

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2016)

Personally for me, Rey and Finn just don't seem like the kind of people who belong in the Star Wars universe. Whenever I saw them I couldn't think of Star Wars 100% and couldn't immerse myself in that universe, but whenever I saw Han Solo, Chewbacca, Leia, C3PO, R2D2, and Luke, I thought and was immersed in the world and universe of Star Wars. Kylo Ren was OK, but an issue I have is how is he supposed to be Han and Leia's son when he doesn't even have the same hair color as either one of them? He has black hair and Han and Leia both have like light brown hair? The space battles were amazing though, I loved seeing Tie Fighters and X-Wings and whatnot again, THAT is most certainly Star Wars. Personally I would have loved to see George Lucas direct as well but what's happened has already happened. To sum it up, basically it was Rey and Finn who mainly gave me the negatives of this movie. I don't know if they just aren't the best actors or what, but they just have this look on their face that takes me out of the movie and makes me just see their actual selves, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, and not who they are supposed to be in the universe of Star Wars in this movie. They way they acted and spoke, and what they said (not all the time) just didn't seem believable and felt so un-star wars like for me, and yeah obviously what they said wasn't necessarily the actors fault, but rather the writers' faults. The movie just felt like it tried so hard to be a fan-service to general star wars fans and didn't try to feel like it was Star Wars and an actual movie. It should have tried to just be a natural Star Wars movie and then people like me would enjoy it, but one of the problems for me was casting Daisy Ridley and John Boyega. I wish episode 7 could have just been all about Han Solo, Leia, Chewbacca, Luke, C3PO, and R2D2. I guess maybe I'm just not a huge fan of young characters/people. Daisy Ridley and John Boyega are too young and I think I prefer movies where everyone is at least like late 20s or at least 30 years of age. But again, this is just an entirely personal personal opinion.