Bad heroes. Bad villains. Recycled Plot. Good Everything Else.

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2015)

The good:
1) The movie feels more like the original trilogy and less like the prequels. The scenes felt believable and mature due to the practical effects, longer takes, and an overall reduction in the number of retarded creatures and CGI effects.
2) Han Solo and Chewy were written well. Han's death was appropriate and fit well into his character arc, as established in the original trilogy.
3) The movie is very nostalgic ( an effective but shortsighted way to get good reviews).
The bad:
1) The plot is shamelessly recycled from episode IV. You already know this.
2) Finn is meh. His character suffers mostly because he tries to fit into two roles which generally don't mix - comic relief and relatable hero. You find it hard to care when he gets slashed by Kylo's lightsaber. He's a good guy, but no hero worth crying over. Too much cowardice, mild stupidity, and relentlessly misplaced humor.
3) Rey. Her character is still a complete mystery for a lot of wrong reasons. Who raised her? Why does she sympathize with the droid? Where did she learn to run and jump and fight like a world-class Olympian? Why is she willing to risk her life to run away with a droid and rebel fighter she hasn't exchanged more than 10 words with? The 'why' questions go on forever with her. It starts to seem that if she wasn't an attractive girl with a British accent, you would be hard-pressed for a reason to care about her at all.
Her abilities show that she is already more powerful than any bad guy in the galaxy. I mean Luke and Anakin had to undergo years of training with the best jedi ever just to do half of the things Rey can do without breaking a sweat. It seems to throw the entire idea of intense jedi training under the bus when some girl with zero training in the force can do almost everything just as well.
For these reasons, Rey just feels like a one-dimensional superwoman action "hero". You never get to see her truly struggle. She has no apparent flaws. You never get to hear her explain what she is thinking, a'la Luke in the Millennium Falcon's Galley or Anakin to Padme. She makes no logical decisions which affect the course of the movie, or even the course of her character. She just gets sucked into sh*t that she has to fight her way out of. The end result is that you get a character that the audience can't identify with or care about. She is truly the most disappointing and poorly written character in the film. We watched a whole 2.25 hour film about her and we still don't know anything about her beyond the fact that she kicks ass at everything!
4) The villains were trash. No need to explain this one.
5 stars because I enjoyed it. The missing stars because I think the characters were boring (And I'm afraid that the sequels are going to suffer immensely because of the weak characters) and the plot was too much like Episode IV's.