In a more intelligent galaxy far far FAR away, Abrams would have been outed after star trek.

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2016)

The only reason I give this anything above a 1/10 rating was simply for the fact that it was star wars to a certain point.
Aside from all the hype, which crummy movies usually get when the producers need to recoup their losses on the films budget by fooling folks into spending their hard earned money to waste time, I could tell this one would be a stinker.
One main reason I was more than disappointed at this travesty was the format it took to almost completely emulate new hope in its entirety. The formula was basically the same except for the wicked alterations to the canon stories in the Star Wars mythos which were supposed to be set in stone. But this movie defiled everything that was star wars, and all because abrams ( I am tired of honoring him with correct name spelling) cant focus on one film job at a time even if lucas wrote him a plan to make it work. He would still do it the abrams way...
There was no connection to the numerous decades that passed between Return of The Jedi and Force Awakens and the acting was terrible. I was literally struggling to stay awake while people were ducking in and out because they too must have given up through various scenes of this steamer. I am loathe to say I did not just wait to stream even a pirated version of this movie, because I will never get my money back, nor will anyone else from all the trash merchandise and other sad 'S.W.' films yet to release. Attempting to so obviously create characters and themes that are so familiar says that the director has no faith in the brains of most people, and perhaps by the high rating of this film, he was at least right in that only.
The franchise is dead to me, and as far as I am concerned, I already know how everything in the history of the tales of Luke and all the others went and I wont be swayed by modern Hollywood detritus.
Disney does not care and Lucas gave up years ago because he already knew people only want bright lights and fights and no big thoughts in sight. Abrams work on the franchise makes the systematic eradication of the Jedi by Palpatine and all the wars in those far away stars look like a halo tournament. Its painfully boring to behold.