They Didn't Even Try to be Original !!!

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2015)

Never have I been compelled to write a review for a movie before. It might deserve slightly more than 1/10 but that 8.6 average is a gross misrepresentation of the movie and an offense to the rest of the saga.
I came in with low expectations. I knew they would try to copy some elements from the original films. But I never expected them to simply copy them exactly. The minute I saw stormtroopers and a masked Sith Lord, I was kind of disappointed. I thought Darth Vader 2.0 would be the worst I would have to see. No, we also have R2D2 2.0, Darth Sidious 2.0, young Luke Skywalker 2.0 and Death Star 3.0.
The scene where Poe compares the new Death Star's size to the old one is the most horrible scene of the movie. That along with Han Solo's line "How do we blow it up? There's always a way to do that." felt like a spit in the faces of all loyal star wars fans. It was like JJ Abrams saying "We know we're bringing absolutely nothing to the table but we also know that you'll give us your money just for holding the Star Wars banner."
The one good element of the movie was the darkness of the few opening sequences. Kylo Ren seemed to be able to do things no other Sith was able to do before like stopping bullets and breaking into people's minds. However, this darkness abates more and more as the movie goes on. When the droid isn't caught, we're expecting Kylo Ren to take out his anger on the officer. Instead, he just pathetically destroys his own computers. The clip of the Death Star destroying five planets simultaneously is amazing however it's very quickly forgotten. Apart from Coruscant, we know nothing about the destroyed planets, and even less about the characters that died along with them.
The lightsaber battle was simply disgraceful. Even Anakin, who was supposed to be the Chosen One got destroyed by the first Sith Lord he faced (Count Dooku) and this was after many years of training as Obi- Wan's apprentice. Yet Rey manages beat an apparently very powerful (although unhinged) Sith first time she uses a lightsaber. When she says "Ah yes, the force" and closes her eyes right before she beats him, the cringe is too much to bear.
Of course there is an enormous amount of plot holes, and the more you think about the movie, the more you notice. No need for me to list them. To sum up, The Force Awakens was just a way to milk the nostalgia people have for the original star wars. DON'T WATCH THIS DISGUSTING GARBAGE!!!!