Disappointing, lazy film that didn't excite.

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2015)

As a massive film fan but not a die hard star wars geek, I was still very excited to see a new Star Wars film brought into our generation. I was looking forward to imaginative fight scenes, dark and thrilling bad guys with epic imaginative scenes to keep me interested and watching. This unfortunately didn't happen.
I think it was all round very lazy. It had many, many moments and long scene as old characters would gaze into each others eyes and nothing would happen. This for me wasn't necessary and didn't need to happen. I understand die hard Star Wars fans love the nostalgic side of this seeing old characters back on the big screen, but I felt it tried to survive on this and see it as a cop out for creating new, gripping action scenes for people who want to see a great, classic Star Wars battle scene or light saber fight.
Another extremely disappointing part of this film was with the first light saber fight for decades. It was with the character Fynn, and so underwhelming it was hard to watch. This should have been a momentous spectacle and looked like an on screen fumble.
One more point that I want to make was the search for a Jedi, there is only one Jedi left in the whole galaxy and has screen time of about 5 seconds. This was properly the most disappointing part of the film for me and a flop of a conclusion to this film.
This film was entirely character progression and giving old characters film time to raise the heads of avid Star Wars fans. Im sure many people were very satisfied but unfortunately I was nothing but disappointed.
Hopefully, we have more to look forward to the next one.