Great special effects, mediocre story and a missed opportunity.

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2015)

This review may contain spoilers.
My girlfriend and I went to see star wars the force awakens. We both were very enthusiastic about this, even when we knew it was a J.J.Abrams take on star wars. After we saw the movie we both had a bit of a strange feeling about the film. we weren't the only ones because a lot of people that were filing out of the theater were commenting about the rather lack of a story.
Conclusion: Pro: excellent special effects, *great fight scenes, *new actors that make it kind of interesting.
con's: Lack of a coherent story, *a new hope and the empire strikes back mashed into one, *sometimes shallow acting (partly because of the contract with the old cast and the new young ones), *Another j.j Abrams production which translates to this: a high "pew pew"-EXPLOSIONS content but very very shallow story (In this case a mashing together of two previous movies story-wise and not so well done) *doesn't follow the star wars lore much. *some critics see that the black versus white mentality is a thin red line throughout the movie. I kind of see where they get that from even though I do not agree with that statement. A movie is a movie
Overall conclusion: missed opportunity to make the movie even better because of the con's that are weighing it down way too much. Also Abrams should have followed and used the existing lore instead of ignoring it in favor of the "pew pew-EXPLOSIONS" part. I gave it a 5/10, which is very generous considering the huge negative aspects of the movie(which i could go on and on about).
So to see or not to see in the theaters? If you like a lot of explosions and if you aren't bothered that the movie detracts completely from the star wars lore, i should say go and see it for yourself.