Nostalgia Nostalgia Nostalgia

Rating: 9/10 (1 January 2019)

If I'm being honest this is probably my 3rd favorite of all the Star Wars films including the spin-offs. The reason is, as my headline reads, nostalgia. I got goosebumps upon seeing all my old childhood favorites like Chewbacca, Han Solo, Princess Leia, C3PO and R2D2.
The movie though is about the new characters with the characters from yesteryear just hear to support. Rey- is a young lady who's been abandoned on a crappy planet by her parents, Finn-a former Storm Trooper who breaks away from being brain washed while having a moral epiphany, Poe- an expert pilot who has a stubborn leadership quality to him and Kylo Ren-Han and Leia's son who's turned to the dark side to follow in his grandfather's footsteps as the new Darth Vader.
As the story evolves, Poe steals a map that may help them find Luke Skywalker. Luke left long ago for a life of solitude. The Empire finds Poe but Finn helps him evade capture but they end up crashing on the same crappy planet as Rey. Finn believes Poe to be dead but stumbles upon Rey who has Poe's droid BB-8 (who actually has the map) . Rey and Finn take the Millennium Falcon from a scrap yard and eventually run into Han and Chewy (Goosebumps!) who then take Finn and Rey to Leia (more Goosebumps!). Han confronts Kylo Ren who kills his father!!!!! Rey ends up fighting Kylo Ren and we see she has some sort of Jedi power. They end up escaping and the last scene we see Rey handing Luke a light saber on a desolate island. Fade to black.
JJ Abrams did a great job of getting the old fans excited by basically making a newer version of the original Star Wars: A New Hope.