Terribly Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (18 December 2015)

I have just seen it and it was a true disappointment. Technically, it's mediocre with a very heavy handed and disjointed plot and bland cinematography.
But more importantly, it's a soulless movie that feels forced, a carefully manufactured product that tries to tick all the feature-box of the originals.
Unlike the OT and the prequels, it does not know what it wants to be about and it feels directionless. I was at least excepting a thrilling space adventure and I had a boring 2 hour and a half slog.The worst flaw of this movie is that how predictable everything is, completely killing any sense of wonder and discovery which, in my opinion, is the essence of Star Wars.
I liked the OT for the feeling of adventure, a Greek tragedy for the space age and a new modern myth infused by eastern philosophy. I liked the prequels for the political intrigue, the sci fi retelling of the fall of the Roman Republic and the clueless Jedis being played like a cheap fiddle.
But more importantly, these movies had soul. You felt, that however flawed, they might have been, they were important to George Lucas. He had to tell these stories.
Here, it just feels, that it is a product that is important chiefly to shareholders. Millions will watch it but in my humble opinion, this hollow shell of a movie does not deserve it.