It is What It Is People.

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2015)

I am not a huge Starwars fan. I do own the Trilogy 4,5, and 6 on DVD but I have never ever brought a toy or a souvenir. Let's just say I'm an average fan but had high hopes this episode would be something special and spectacular. After finished watching this movie, I was certain now that J.J. Abrams was chosen wrong by Disney for this project. You need a commander with an original idea and a fresh take on STARWARS. Also someone with a grand vision, a bigger idea of the universe. When I saw that alien monster attached to Han's new spaceship, I thought about Abrams previous movies, Cloverfield...there was an alien monster in that one, Super 8...another alien monster in that one too...The first Star Trek movie he did...let me think, ahh yes!, when Spock decided to maroon Kirk in that cold planet, an alien monster was in pursuit of him. See how small the vision J.J. Abrams has? It's really all about alien monsters to him. That is as much originality you are going to get from this guy. So what we end up having is a retread and combination of all the previous movies rolled into one without the big grand epic battles and fight scenes. You know with the droid armies and the big fight battles because Lucas gave us all that in 1, 2, 3. And don't forget Lucas also showed us how much of a badass Yoda was. That was shown too. There were also epic light saber fights scenes in all of the 6 previous movies, this light saber fight scene at the end of this movie was probably the worst I've seen. When I saw this, I have to admit, Lucas's 1, 2 and 3 were much better movies. Abrams gave us nothing memorable to see. His lack of creativity is seen here. Although I did like Daisy Ridley, she is quite beautiful and lovely to watch, and seeing the old stars back in action was quite surreal but at the end, the movie and storyline just wasn't all that great. I wish it had been. I wish they took it in another direction. I wish we saw something different that we never seen before like when the AT-AT Walkers appeared in the battle of Hoth, or the Speeders in Endor forest. We were all lucky to witness two skillfully crafted battles. Don't forget that amazing cat and mouse chase going on with the millennium falcon and the star destroyer in TESB, it nearly took up half of the movie and it was great! I wanted to see more. But instead, we have an alien monster that is shaped like an abnormally sized octopus sucking on Han Solos spaceship fumes, I give up.