Very disappointed

Rating: 2/10 (23 December 2015)

This movie is a mix of a lot of things. It's probably a lot of fun if you are watching it without having watched the old movies or without being an actual fan of the Star Wars universe. The special effects I found to be very good, having watched it in IMAX 3d I gotta say it was an awesome viewing experience. That's about all that's good about it. It is entertaining. On the other hand there is so much that's bad with it, oh my God. To begin with, it doesn't feel like Star Wars. It's action scenes feel very different, like it's a totally different movie. The locations, everything just feels like a different sci-fi movie... The character development is just awful, or rather, nonexistent. Fin is just a coward basically who is ridiculously friendly judging by the fact that everyone he meets becomes his best friend right away. He just doesn't feel like he belongs there in any way and really is placed there just for diversity purposes. Han Solo and Chewbacca enter the scene out of nowhere, makes absolutely 0 sense that they would just happen to pass by, and then the gangsters they owe money to just happen to show up, making it clear that even though he was a general in the old movies he is now just a loser and a scoundrel again.... and then the way he is killed off, I mean, Han Solo was one of the main characters that made the originals amazing and I fell like they just completely disrespected the character. The chemistry between him and Leia is gone, he is just this eager to please old fella who instantly makes friends with everyone, it's just stupid. Everyone is making friends. The bad guy is a teenager with anger issues and a crap personality, the son of two of the most beloved characters in the trilogy is a spoiled brat who can barely kill a guy that just picked up a lightsaber and has no force powers or training whatsoever and gets his ass handed to him by a girl who also never picked up a lightsaber before, I mean, how much of a loser is this guy? The new emperor is CGI and looks like Golum... what else, the new empire is a ripoff of North Korea, with the winter scene and "supreme leader"... The story is the exact remake of episode IV, it even has a new Death Star... it's just altogether bad. The script is filled with lines that are supposed to make you nostalgic but they just feel forced.... The jokes are not funny at all... it's just bad... bad... bad... Entertaining to watch but that's about it, bad story, unoriginal, bad script and also does away with a lot of the books and games that happen in the expanded universe, basically making all of them non canon and ruining them... a movie made to sell toys....