The force is weak with this one....

Rating: 2/10 (29 December 2015)

Where to start with this awful movie? I'm disappointed, sad and can't understand how all these mistakes got through. It would have been so easy, but not for Jar Jar Abrams. He was even chosen as film personality of the year 2015. Yes, favouritism is reigning supreme in Hollywood! So, off to the movie, why is it so freaking bad?
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1. The opening scene, there's no way you can relate to these 2 new figures we have never seen before. Just some shallow dialogue and the transfer of some sort of device.
2. The villain, no one's afraid of him.
3. How hard you try, it's just impossible to relate to the main characters. Finn asking if Rey has a boyfriend? Trying to fix something in the Millennium Falcon and resting his hand on her face? He grabbing her hand and she arguing with him??? A band of thugs with Scottish accents?????? A very big Gollum as new leader? Princess Leia who doesn't show any depth or emotion and Han Solo who just feels so disconnected from the entire cast. Don't get me started on Finn...
4. The plot, simple rehash of all previous movies. Predictable and boring. A map to Luke skywalker? Did Luke make it? So people could go and find him? A droid guarding this map?
5. The pace, way too fast. - Finn rather easily frees a very important person. No closing of the docking gates, a simple soldier seems to have clearance to a prized prisoner. - Rey defeats a knight of Ren (Where did they come from? None of the books mention them) rather easily. She also opens the doors from the most powerful weapon in the universe by unplugging one thing. - The new death star has no fleet surrounding or guarding it, rather, a few ships can penetrate to the planet and destroy the oscillator without no resistance. Just place some thermal detonators on it seems the way to go. - Poe shoots everyone and everything down in just 30 seconds.
6. The soundtrack is below average, no memorable music came to my ears except for the opening and ending soundtrack.
7. The letters at the end where very big, as opposed to the ending letters of all previous episodes. Where's the consistency?
8. No suspense at all, Kylo just removes his mask because she asks him too. Then we find out the mask is nothing but some kind halloween prop with built in voice improver (Wow, impressive!).
9. No matter how hard the commander on the planet screams or how hard Kylo rages on, it doesn't feel as dark as the dark side could feel.
10. The empire, we get to see nothing of it. It's destroyed in 1 minute. They just let some amateur first order take 30 years to build a thing that huge without anyone noticing...
11. To sum it all up, it just didn't feel like star wars. Felt more like a bad b-movie pretending to be something it's not.
How could they have improved it?
1. Should've started with how Han, Leia and Luke parted 2. Then, show holograms of Palpatine, the empire trying to save it's own ass by pretending he still lives. 3. Show the slow disintegration of the empire 4. Show the slow rise of the first order 5. Show Luke training Rey and the other padawans, Luke instructing them on the force. Deep dialogues between master and padawan about the force. 6. Should've ended with hints of the big weapon being build, but still shrouded in mystery. 7. Using the same letters at the ending as in the previous movies.
Instead of giving us a big meal, with great spices, herbs and dessert too, they gave us a happy meal with plastic toys (And of course offers we can't refuse, like a star wars subway meal for only 5 euro's and HP laptops with Kylo Ren as desktop wallpaper.
Yes.... Yes... Let the anger flow through you, because the force is weak with this one. (I did like the opening yellow letters and the droid though!!)