Completely unoriginal story

Rating: 3/10 (27 November 2016)

The spoilers are for those who did not watch the previous SW movies.
Its a movie about an individual who is gifted with the force that lives a crappy life on a desert planet, who comes upon and rescues a droid that carries critical information for the rebellion. They embark on a journey aided by Han solo - who happens to get attacked by people who want his head over a bad business deal - and meet up with the rebel forces led by Leia and other generals to defeat a super-weapon that can destroy planets whole ... Remember that? It was a cool movie right?
Now turn Luke into a female character and remove all the cool "Jedi training" moments he had with Ben Kenobi, instead the main character just develops powers she didn't have at some point in the movie and goes on full-Jedi mode
It goes completely against the setting created by the OT (Empire and the Sith destroyed) despite the continuity that should be invoked with all the characters passing over and whatnot Why are there REBELS? Do you know what a rebel means? If the republic is restored those guys fighting for it should be called "The Rebuplcian Guard" or something. The movie is completely uncaring for the political setting.
The side characters are just as bad, but not to the fault of the actors. The idea of the turncoat stormtrooper was nice, but it was completely wasted. He turns sides because he has problems killing other people, but has no problem blowing up his previous buddies and having a lot of fun while he does that. He just needed some rebel cool kids mojo to start shooting people. The stormtrooper commander looked cool at first as a hard-ass military figure that represented the strictness of the first order - but her character is completely hollowed when she complies to her captors within 10 seconds of being held at gunpoint, and shuts down the shield generators leading to the station (including her and all her troops) being blown up by the Rebels
While we have seen goofy and badly written good guys before in Star Wars movies, the bad guys were usually cool enough to make us forget about that.. Guess what? That is not happening in this movie either We get another ghost-hologram sith lord with very little impact and an emo Darth-Vader wannabe teenager who wears a mask. There is absolutely no context as to why he turned to the dark side, except for "Vader is strong in this one" comments. Another big problem with this movie is that it evokes a dirty inbred feeling, do we need another generation of the Skywalker lineage that keeps turning light-dark-light-dark. The movies are not called the "Skywalker Chronicles" you know... WE got Anakin tying the prequels to the OT, looks like we will have Luke from the OT as a mentor - that was ENOUGH! We didn't need his nephew being the sith, we don't need Rey turning out to be this daughter or something (which we probably will)
TL:DR version 1) Another super-duper-mega death star, with no explanation given as to how they managed to build it (considering it took a lot of effort for the full empire to build it) 2) Completely ignores the universe's political setting after the OT, making it look like a fan-rewrite of episode IV 3) No character development and "Skywalker chronicles" syndrome 4) Last but not the least, whiny emo Darth Vader wannabe main villain
Don't get fooled by the hype, OT had some faults, but they made us ignore those faults because of the good overall story The prequels had mistakes but they related correctly to the setting, and while mirroring the sequels, told their own original story This movie is the worst of them all, it is an Episode IV remake with all the good stuff of Ep IV removed.