Could have been better...

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2015)

Firstly after reading other reviews the words "you can't please everyone" comes to mind. Episodes 1-3 were slated for being too CG and not star wars looking. JJ kept to the original star wars style very well in my opinion and now people are slating it for not being CG enough for 2015. The film was better for it. Aside from a good cast and it being an enjoyable movie, that's about as positive as I can be.
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I tried to ignore the early signals that I had seen things before. The DROID with the secret message etc but I rolled my eyes when the enemy's big round weapon that would destroy planets could be blown up by shooting an "exhaust port".... sorry they renamed it for this movie. There's having some Jurassic World style throw backs to the original movie and then there's rehashing the old movies. You never know this might all just be an ice breaker for Disney and the next two movies, with the right plot could be fantastic.