Hope for the sequels, this one fell flat.

Rating: 7/10 (18 December 2015)

SPOILER ALARM - DON'T KEEP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT*
I will give the movie a 7/10. I liked the starship battles, the cinematography, scenery and seeing Han & Chewie, Leia & Co. obviously made my heart jump.
But there are some things that keep that movie from being great and once the hype wears off, I think the rating on IMDb will go down and people (especially fans) will start to realize that there are some major flaws.

The new cast of characters (especially the villains) seem to be bland, like cameos without any depth and motivation

Kylo Ren is a wimp and there is no reason given for the things he does (including killing Han *snief*). He completely lacks emotional realism or a motive.

The heroes are not very iconic, I expected way more of Finn and Po. Especially Finn who is supposed to inspire a new generation of boys and give black kids something to look up to, falls short and ends up being just a dude without any talents or force powers, who picks up a lightsaber and gets his ass whopped hard, just to eventually end up in a coma.

Rey is OP. She is a better pilot than Po, a better mechanic and shot than Han and Finn. She also defeats a trained dark side user and uses force powers without any training and pretense. Wtf? Give females someone to vouch for yes, but please keep it real and don't let all the males look like whimps and fools. That was just ridiculous and smelled a little bit of right-wing feminism mentality (females > males)

The movie has dozens of Deus Ex Machina moments and plot holes. The biggest for me being that Luke goes into hiding for 30 years, let's Ben Solo go dark and isn't even there when one of his best friends dies. (Not to speak of not helping to stop the First Order destroy a whole star system and kill billions - dah)

This is probably the first time a soundtrack from John Williams falls short and sounds bland. I was really surprised by this. Not a single catchy new theme there.

I still have some hope that they will balance the main cast a bit in the sequels, give the villains some depth and not let Rey roll over everyone like it is a bad femnazi joke. And please let Luke do something else than just hang out in New Zealand and stare emo- surfer-beard style at Rey without saying a single word, that took me completely out of it.