First Time Star Wars Has Made Me Angry

Rating: 2/10 (18 December 2015)

** REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS **
I am a huge Star Wars fan and jumped through all kinds of hoops to ensure I could see this new installment as quickly as possible. When going in, I fully expected to come out feeling excited and triumphant, much like every other Star Wars movie makes me feel (yes, even the prequels).
Boy, was I in for a disappointment. What really did it for me? The death of Han Solo. Nothing could have prepared me for this. Seeing him die in any fashion would have been tough for me. Had it been in a manner fitting of this iconic "not going down without a fight" character, perhaps I could have come to grips with it, but this...this is just an atrocity. His death comes in total, emotional abandonment by his own son during what is probably Han's most vulnerable moment of the entire franchise. It was truly painful to watch. I was so angry after seeing this happen that I felt almost foggy the entire rest of the movie.
I was really enjoying the movie up to that point and was able to overlook a number of things happening in the story that just weren't making sense. Now just about all I can think about is how abandoned I felt by a franchise I've loved my entire life. Such a massive, massive disappointment.
Other issues:

Finn is inexplicably the only Storm Trooper to ever have a sudden question of moral conscience in the line of duty. While I didn't dislike his character, it's just strange.

Finn is the only non-Jedi character I can think of to ever wield a lightsaber (not that he's terribly successful at it).

The planets are kind of unimaginative, when you think about it. At first, I could have sworn we were on Tatooine, but turns out it's a carbon-copy called Jakku.

Rey has a strange and sudden understanding of how to use the Force while imprisoned by the First Order. Having just realized that the legends of the Jedi and the Force were actually real, suddenly she understands how to use the Force in ways that all the other Jedi had to learn through specific and highly-disciplined training. This makes no sense.

The first time Rey holds a lightsaber, she is capable of using it to defeat a foe already trained, albeit poorly, in the art.

It doesn't make much sense why R2-D2 is in some kind of comatose state because of the disappearance of Luke. Star Wars has always given some emotional capacity to droids...but this is a little much.

The interactions between Han and Leia are unforgivably underdeveloped. It's like they are long-lost friends meeting for the first time in decades. In reality, they were in love, still have feelings for each other, and had a son together.

It's just not believable to me how Kylo Ren, son of Han and Leia, became so twisted and evil. Maybe they will develop this further, but along with all the other issues, this feels bothersome.

It feels really weird and forced how we have a Death Star-like base, many times larger than the Death Star was, with a weakness the Resistance is able to immediately identify and exploit with a seemingly much smaller force. This basically flows like: "Another Death Star? Okay. Bigger? Okay. There must be a way to blow it up. Ah, yes, that's the way. Now, let's do it!"

What's up with Luke? Are we really to believe that this renowned Jedi succumbed to a fit of depression and just left everything and everyone he ever cared about? That's just crazy.

Things I liked? It is still an enjoyable movie, aside from Solo's death. Up to that point, Solo was possibly the best character in the movie, and I really saw a lot of the classic Han coming out in Harrison Ford's performance. Rey is very likable as a character. I really liked how Anakin's and Luke's original lightsaber is brought back into the story.
In short, this story suffers greatly from a script and plot that should have been more carefully and respectfully vetted. It's a jocular sequel that comes off as a cheap money-grab. We know corporations care about the money, but acting this way with Star Wars is practically irreverent. Disney, with all its force in the entertainment world, can deliver the hype and publicity to bring in the money they so covet, but the injustice they have delivered to the die-hard fans of Star Wars with this joke of a sequel will not be forgotten this side of the Outer Rim.