Star Wars: The Force goes to sleep

Rating: 1/10 (17 June 2016)

As someone who saw the original SW movies in the theaters back in the late 1970's and early 1980's, I was immensely disappointed with this film. I am not against the idea of a re-boot, per se, but this was simply a point-by-point re-tread of episode IV (with a bit of V and VI thrown in). It seems they were just checking off a list of old plot points to cover:

Rebel operative hides secret information with droid - check

Villains in pursue said information/droid – check

Loner on desert planet finds droid – check

Millennium Falcon blasts off of desert planet, required to evade/fight bad guy ships in the process - check

Bad guys now searching for Millennium Falcon w/droid and 'fugitives' - check

Villains have mega weapon that destroy an entire planet(s)– check

Cantina scene – check

Female protagonist captured by bad guys and held on mega weapon, necessitating rescue - check

Rebels send small group of x-wings to attack mega weapon – check

Rebel team needs to disable shield generator before mega weapon can be destroyed - check

Etc,  etc

Everything that made SW special is lacking in this film. There is absolutely nothing original here - nothing. We've seen this all before and it was done a lot better the first time. On every level this film fails: recycled story, weak writing, silly villains and corny dialogue.
This is like a fan-made remake where the director happened to have $200M to play with. However, instead of getting an 'homage', we get a 'fromage'. Unlike the original trilogy (and the prequels) I will never watch this film again.