They ruined it

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2015)

This is the worst movie of the franchise, and its worst offense is how it diminished the importance of the Jedi. Until now, the Star Wars universe has centered on the Jedi and Sith facing off in epic battles for control of the universe. The lightsaber battles between each side's masters were what we all waited for in every movie. For TFA to show an ex-Stormtrooper and a young civilian, both with no Force or lightsaber training whatsoever, fighting the primary villain to a draw is a absurd disgrace to the franchise. They should not have stood a chance against Kylo, who was trained to some extent by Luke Skywalker himself. The only sensible sequence would be for Kylo to toy with them and try to enrage Rey to facilitate turning her to the Dark Side...but that didn't happen - as it was shown, Rey could have actually defeated Kylo. It is a farce and completely ruined an already severely damaged movie.
Other stupid things, which stem from the apparent fact that the Rebels are no better off 30 years after winning the ultimate battle against the Sith.

Why are the same group of people again hunkered down in a crude command center? They didn't rebuild the Republic Senate? Shouldn't Leia have taken this task, with her political background? I thought the free universe hated the Empire, so shouldn't they all have provided the victorious Rebels with immense resources to rebuild and expand?

I am to believe Han and Chewie, heroes of the greatest battle of the universe, have gone back to smuggling for criminals? Shouldn't they have been given wealth and esteemed positions training the new strike teams of the young Republic?

Then of course, Luke is still the only Jedi. We are given almost no details as to what went wrong, other than that Kylo ruined everything and then Luke just quit and left. Maybe they will somehow salvage this storyline but it is a critical aspect that is inexplicably glossed over. And how stupid to have Kylo ruin it? There should have been new actual Jedi, who Luke developed right after VI to be established in this movie (isn't Rey too old to be trained?), so that they could be believable heroes in VIII and IX.

This was a movie made for children with no respect given to the fundamental lore of the story, and the producers of this movie deserve be shamed for it. Maybe we shouldn't care, but it is always sad to see something beautiful and sophisticated ruined like this.