Better than prequels; worse than original. Overall good but had its flaws.

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2015)

Saw the movie last night. I would say that it's an above average film. It wasn't perfect but it was entertaining and left me satisfied. Here are some observations:
Positives:
-Special effects were solid, as expected. Each movie gets better and better with that.
-Humor, when timed right, was great. You can always get a kick out ofChewie and the droids. Han had some funny one-liners.
-Much like the other movies, it was a movie the entire audience could relate and enjoy. I would say this movie is definitely designed more towards the millennials as it should be. The idea of a interracial romance, a female Jedi who fights, etc would not entirely happen in the originals.
-Left you hanging to see what the deal with Luke was and where he goes from there.
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Negatives:
Kylo-Ren was pretty lame. I just expected more. The Dark Side had years and years go by to develop a well-trained villain. Even Darth Maul was more appealing. He was mixed with emotions the entire movie, he wasn't too intimidating beyond the first scene. There's really no backstory on him with Han at all. And he wasn't even skilled! He literally let Fin pick up a light saber and give him a hard time. What Jedi does this? Not to mention letting Rey read his mind, mess with him and pretty much defeat him in a light saber fight as well. Step your game up Dark Side.
-You couldn't really relate to many characters. For a movie with very similar details to "A New Hope", the difference in clarification on things was insane. You were knew to the whole story in Episode IV, but you still kept up with the mission of characters were and what they wanted to accomplish while explaining back stories at the same time. In this, you had 2 clueless untrained main characters, Han who didn't do much explaining, and others. C3P0 actually was not in it as much as I thought he'd be and he does a great job explaining things.
-Who is Snoke? What's his backstory? How did he take power of more or less the entire galaxy?
Bottom line is at the end of the day, it's a Star Wars movie and you can appreciate it. I would say it's more entertaining then the prequels but not as good as the originals. There are always more things you can nitpick in the negative column because Star Wars is at a high platform to begin with. I liked this movie and would see again. I am looking forward to more to come.