I'd give this a 10 if it weren't for "A New Hope"

Rating: 7/10 (15 December 2017)

I'd have to admit, if this were a standalone film it would be fantastic, because JJ Abrams and his new crew of Star Wars makers did a really good job. However, I have no idea why, but for some reason he and Lawrence Kasdan decided to steal most if not all the aspects of "A New Hope" into this new storyline that would either make or break Disney's reputation for how well they can handle Star Wars.
So here's my basic analysis of this movie compared to Episode IV (minor spoilers, if you don't want to read ahead).
How the plot lines up with Episode IV

Stormtroopers, plus a Sith Lord who wears a mask that digitizes his voice, attack the good guys because they have valuable information, and one of the good guys sends off a droid with that information before getting captured.
That droid with the valuable information comes across the lead protagonist, on a sandy planet, who later discovers Jedi powers.
The stormtroopers find the droid with its Jedi partner, but then they escape in the Millennium Falcon (which the Jedi character regards as trashy).
The bad guys have their headquarters on a gigantic fortress that has a cannon that can destroy entire planets.
The new Jedi character comes across Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber.
The new Jedi and friends come across the team of good guys and go to their planet that is moderately forest but somewhat swampy (I'm almost starting to wonder if it's the same planet in both movies), and discuss how to defeat the bad guys' planet-destroying headquarters.
The good guys, with their X-Wings and Y-Wings, attack the enemy headquarters as it's preparing to destroy the good guys' headquarters.
The Sith Lord manages to escape alive, along with various other members of his team, for the sake of setting up a sequel.

Here's other features of Episode IV that were placed in out of order

A stormtrooper rescues one of the bad guys' prisoners (the same prisoner who sent off the droid with the valuable information).
The Millennium Falcon gets captured by tractor-beam.
Han Solo has an unsettled debt with criminals.
The main characters enter a cantina, where the gad buys have a spy who notices the droid with the valuable information (which later leads to a battle) , and one of the main characters pays someone for transportation.
The main characters manually go in to disable the bad guys' fortress' shield.
A old, mentor character is killed by the Sith Lord.

Now on the positive side, let me mention some original material (or at the very least, material that makes this plot unique) that this movie had.

The new Sith's lightsaber - it not only has the laser hilts, but the saber itself seems to have a different texture to it than most lightsabers.
For some reason, none of the Sith are called "Darth".
New force powers were introduced (such as force freeze and force faint), however I'm not too sure whether that's a plus for this movie.
The leading character is female (all the previous Star Wars movies have had male characters), and she lives as a scavenger.
A stormtrooper, out of his own conscience, chooses to betray the bad guys; this clearly shows actual personality to them as opposed to the previous Star Wars films, which depicts them as merely expendable objects.
The new Jedi is able to discover that she is a Jedi all on her own; in Luke's and Anakin's cases, they needed another Jedi master to tell them that they were Jedi.
The second-to-last fight scene is perhaps the most original Star Wars battle to date (the one on the green planet where that cantina is).
A non-Jedi wields a lightsaber to fight the bad guys (Han Solo in E. V never fought stormtroopers with Luke's lightsaber, and General Grievous in E. III was already a bad guy).
A stormtrooper wields a melee weapon, though this does somewhat compare to the Magnaguards in E. III.
The Sith takes off his mask to show how ordinary he is (however, people initially laughed at his non-masked appearance).
The Jedi=Sith battle at the end showed that neither side had too much experience with lightsabers.
The valuable information contained by the droid isn't about defeating the bad guys, but it sets up the sequel.

The only reason why everyone has been rating this film 1-5 is because of how much of a remake of E. IV this is. I can totally understand their disappointment, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the movie itself was bad. I do agree that I was a little dumbfounded to see that this movie was too exact to E. IV, but I do still think that this movie was good enough to set a good reputation for Disney occupying Star Wars (you can at least admit that this movie was better than the prequels, right?).
Like I said before, this is the only reason why I am rating this a 7; otherwise, I would have rated it a 10.