The more I think about it, the less I like

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2015)

Saw an article with a list of 40 gaping plot holes, and I think that's about right. This movie survives no critical analysis, tho I wonder at times how objective I would be about the original if it came out today. There are too many to pull apart individually, and the lack of original thought in the script writing has been well covered.
Some personal gripes - there is next to no dialogue about 'the force', which was central to the original movies. Is that due to ties to Christianity and Buddhism, which have fallen out of favor in popular media, or simply that Abrams didn't care about certain critical portions of the franchise?
To me, Boyega & Ridley's chemistry looks more like it belongs on a Nickelodeon afternoon comedy than on the big screen. Driver's channeling of the worst of Hayden Christensen also left much to be desired.
Harrison Ford had most of the high points, but also some of the lows. Carrie Fisher shows why she's been mostly absent from the big screen for 30 years, and the two on screen together show no chemistry except while embracing. Ford reenacts his painfully awkward reunion with his former love interest from the forgettable Indiana Jones 4.
Little things - how did Poe's jacket fall off while he was driving; when Rey argues BB-8 away from the other scavenger, and the scavenger just leaves his net lying on the ground; stormtroopers with armor are killed by a single blast, but major characters without armor receive 'merely a flesh wound'; Ren's inexplicable lack of use of the force in the final battle scene. One expects much more from a $200+ million production. One started checking his watch regularly as the suspension of disbelief was stretched thinner and thinner.
Still better than any of the prequels, tho the 4 minutes of Darth Maul were better than any part (or the whole) of this update. If this were described in terms of the Wizard of Oz, this film has 'the nerve', but no heart or brain.