The Return of... the same old stuff

Rating: 5/10 (2 May 2016)

I really wanted to love this movie...
Sad to say that this movie failed on so many levels. They basically rehashed plot elements from the previous movies and added special effects. Almost every line of the movie was a nod to a scene in the previous movies, which would have been nice once or twice but it's every single a character opens his/her mouth or interacts with an object.
In typical JJ Abrams fashion, they want to go "one up" on everything that has come before. The original trilogy has a Death star that can destroy planets? We'll have a Death Planet that can destroy solar systems.
You have huge star ships "Star Destroyers" so we'll have even bigger star destroyers.
You have an evil Empire trying to dominate the Galaxy, we'll have an even more evil Empire "The First Order" who want to cleanse the Galaxy? Your resistance is ill equipped but brave and skilled. Our resistance will be even worse equipped and even more skilled.
The comparisons go on and on (new more flashy light saber's, new more extreme evil Emperor) Why? Could you not move the plot forward without making things more extreme? Throw in some wooden acting (although not the worst i've seen) and you have some idea what you are dealing with.