Terrible cliché storyline, some nice special effects

Rating: 3/10 (16 December 2015)

Waste of time and money. The story is really cliché, unoriginal and predictable.
You won't miss anything worth caring about and that isn't completely predictable for any halfway intelligent person watching the movie, but
*****SPOILERS AHEAD*****
Han Solo dies in a really dumb, predictable and meaningless way.
They made a new Death Star that is simply 100x larger than the old Death Star and shoots a ridiculous beam that splits into multiple beams halfway and then destroys multiple planets instead of one. Really, couldn't you think of anything else as the antagonist's weapon?
This new Death Star gets destroyed by easily destroying a machine that is supposed to keep the death star "stable". I guess the engineers of this new epic undertaking (that they didn't do justice to in the movie at all) went to the same school as the stormtroopers who can't hit anything when it actually matters, and they learned nothing from their previous attempts at death stars. This new death star is basically just revealed in a few minutes and then shortly afterwards destroyed (after they had to destroy its shield on an adjacent planet. REALLY.) without them making much of a big deal about it at all. Here's an idea: protect your shield generator so that 2 people can't just walk in and take down your shields so that one pesky x-wing can take out the entire death star (the fact that engineers allowed it to be so easy is ridiculous in itself)
And then the antagonist, an experienced dark jedi, got beaten by a girl who only touched a lightsaber for the first time a few minutes ago. Zero training. After that, conveniently a crack opens up right in between them (literally) to preserve the bad guy for the next movie. Oh, and before that a non force user managed to spar with him for a while with a lightsaber, without just getting completely destroyed in 2 seconds.
Beyond that, the whole storyline is just full of recycled and badly redone, story elements from the previous Star Wars movies. At least there wasn't a Jar Jar Binks equivalent.
Overall: terrible storyline. I normally don't go to cinemas but had to make an exception for Star Wars. I should have known better and will never spend another cent on any future Star Wars movie.