Raises more questions than answers, good fun.

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2015)

This was the 4TH best film in the franchise so far, behind the three originals, even return was a little bit better because it was an actual Star Wars film. This one was sort of like Star Trek meets Star Wars characters. It shouldn't even be under the scifi genre this was an action suspense/mystery movie? Why was it a mystery movie? Because they didn't explain the character origins of the MAIN CHARACTER. You thought Finn would be the main character because he was the focal point of the trailers and that he was introduced first and had a motive, BUT YOU'RE WRONG AS HELL. The actual main character is Ray which makes no sense because she isn't as interesting as Finn and she can pilot, scavenge, build, and USE THE FORCE?!! Why do they not explain this at all, she didn't even need a trainer to be able to use JEDI MIND TRICKS, FORCE FOCUS, OR FORCE RESIST. So in essence, instead of making Finn the main character with a motive and a back story, they missed an opportunity of making Ray the new Han Solo scavenger character... I know they're going to explain her origins more in the trilogy but generally, you need to have a main character that is all mystery, or explained enough to keep us interested and then reveal the rest later.
Next we get into the main villain: a young sith, oh wait I mean "First order" that goes by the name of Kylo Ren. He wears a scary mask and I guess wants to be more powerful than Darth Vader? He is Han and Leias kid which is what confuses me because they saw what happened to Anakin Skywalker. Leia's OWN FATHER. And yet they still let their own child use, and be influenced by the dark side. I get that Luke was training him or whatever but you'd think that at this point Luke AND LEIA WOULD KNOW MORE ABOUT STOPPING THIS FROM HAPPENING THAN ANYONE. But no, so now we basically have A new hope part 2. They even threw in some ugly sith lord looking guy that they call the "Supreme leader" Why is he even a part of this movie? He is shrouded in mystery and we have no idea what he does. AND IF HE IS GOING TO BE A PART OF THIS TRILOGY THEN WHY NOT INTRODUCE HIM LATER IN THE SERIES?! You know, how Palpatine wasn't introduced until Return of the Jedi but he was briefly mentioned by Vader which implied their was someone else in charge but that they weren't the main bad guy.
This movie already rips off of the A new hope so much and yet they don't even steal the most obvious things from it. So at this point the plot is so covered by questions that I couldn't focus on the good writing and INCREDIBLE look of the movie. The light saber duels look great and they are a perfect homage to the originals while also bringing a modern look to them. The movie is constantly funny like the originals without being corny or vomit inducing like the prequels. The love story is kept to a minimum between our main protagonist and I'm sad to say, but the worst actor in this movie is probably Carrie Fisher. She just has not aged well at all. And because of that when she talks she looks like a fish trying to gasp for air, I'm sorry, but she was not great. The new actors were above average and I really enjoyed the friendship dynamic between Fin and Po. AND YET FOR SOME REASON THEY USED PO AS A BACKGROUND CHARACTER THAT PILOTS AN EX WING. He is more interesting and fun than RAY, and yet he is used sparingly, but whatever,
I don't even care. We then get into the final act of the movie which is okay. It had some really good parts and some really bad parts. Really good: Lightsaber duel, Chewbacca going ham in that space station, Umm, I guess seeing Finn step up and care like a real human would was awesome. Really bad: Seeing Ray out duel Ren even though he is clearly super strong in the force and way more experienced with a light saber was really bad. Seeing the same death star but bigger be destroyed FOR THE THIRD TIME IN THE NEW STAR WARS FRANCHISE WAS AWFUL. It was done in a New hope, it was done in Return, NOW WHY, DID THEY HAVE TO GO ALL OUT AND BRING ANOTHER FREAKING SUPER DEATH PLANET INTO THE MIX?! This would've been way better if this was the plot to return, or if this was the plot in the third movie of the series? But not the first freaking movie. You mean to tell me that these characters were ready to face off against Ren and the first order? And that these 5 ex wings were ready to destroy the DEATH PLANET that literally destroyed 5 entire moons earlier in the movie.
Btw, what moons were those? Why were they important to us? Wasn't seeing one single planet in Alderaan in a New hope get destroyed way more of an impact because we knew what the planet was to our main characters? In this one I literally thought "COOL LASWERRRR" then they destroyed the moons/planets and I didn't even care. All in all, 7/10.