Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Plot synopsis:
Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed. With the support of the REPUBLIC, General Leia Organa leads a brave RESISTANCE. She is desperate to find her brother Luke and gain his help in restoring peace and justice to the galaxy. Leia has sent her most daring pilot on a secret mission to Jakku, where an old ally has discovered a clue to Lukes whereabouts.The First Order, led by the evil Kylo Ren, is landing stormtroopers to attack a small village, as Poe Dameron meets with Lor San Tekka in a hut. He is given a small bag containing the map to Luke Skywalker. Kylo Ren orders the stormtroopers to destroy Lor San Tekka's entire village and takes Poe captive. Captain Phasma, a stormtrooper wearing chrome-plated armor, leads the attack. Kylo Ren wears a black mask and uses a red, fiery lightsaber. Poe's X-Wing is damaged so that he cannot escape, so the pilot puts the map in a rolling droid unit called BB-8. He fires at Kylo Ren, who uses the Force to block a blaster bolt. As Dameron is captured, the troopers massacre the prisoners, but one stormtrooper FN-2187, refuses to fire. Meanwhile BB-8 rolls away across the sands, narrowly escaping capture.
The droid runs into Rey, a young scavenger who is barely surviving on Jakku. Rey scavenges parts from old wrecks of Star Destroyers on the sands of Jakku, and exchanges them for food at Unkar Plutt's scrap yard. The marks on the walls of her hut indicate she's been on Jakku for a very long time. She rescues BB-8 from a Teedo scavenger. She can understand his beeps and whistles, and offers him shelter for the night.On the First Order destroyer, Poe is unsuccessfully interrogated by the First Order. Kylo Ren is called in to use his Force powers to extract information from Poe about the whereabouts of the map. Poe resists, but ultimately divulges that the map is still on Jakku in his BB-8 unit.Meanwhile Captain Phasma confronts FN-2187 about his behavior on Jakku. She orders him to take his unused blaster in for inspection and report to her division and ultimately reconditioning. Instead FN-2187 decides to run away. He needs a pilot to escape the star destroyer, so he rescues Poe, and the two board a black First Order TIE fighter and escape. Poe renames FN-2187 as Finn, and expertly pilots to an escape while Finn fires the ship's blasters. The fighter is hit by lasers from the destroyer and crash lands on Jakku. Finn has ejected but it appears Poe has gone down with the ship leaving only his jacket.Finn wanders across the desert discarding his stormtrooper armor. Eventually, he arrives in Niima Outpost, the town where Rey trades scrap for food. While Finn is looking for water in the town, he sees Rey being accosted by two of Unkar Plutt's henchmen who are trying to make off with BB-8. He begins to rush to her aid, but before he gets far, Rey handily fights off her attackers using her staff. Clearly, she can handle herself. BB-8 spots Finn looking their way, and tells Rey that he is wearing Poe's jacket which they assume is stolen. Rey chases Finn down, knocks him to the ground and confronts Finn about the jacket. Finn tells them that Poe was captured by the First Order and that he helped him escape, but Poe was unfortunately killed. BB-8 is saddened and rolls off , but Rey is excited and impressed, and assumes Finn is a resistance fighter. Finn lies, telling her he is indeed with the resistance. Rey excitedly tells Finn that BB-8 is on a secret mission. Finn tells her BB-8 is carrying a map to Luke Skywalker and Rey is even more impressed, declaring that she thought Skywalker was a myth.BB-8 returns and alerts Finn and Rey that they are in trouble. First Order stormtroopers are now looking for Finn and the BB-8 droid. Stormtroopers chase Finn, Rey and BB-8 through Niima Outpost and TIE fighters are called in and begin to bomb and strafe the town. To make their escape, they steal a "garbage" vehicle to escape the First Order. It is the Millennium Falcon. Rey takes the pilot's seat while Finn mans the guns. Neither is confident in their abilities, and their lift off is rough, destroying a substantial portion of the town as they try to get off of the ground. Finn is able to shoot down a pursuing fighter, but the guns are hit and locked in a position that prevents him from taking out the remaining fighter. Rey flies through the wrecked ships in the desert of Jakku, occasionally scraping through the sands as they try to keep low to confuse the TIE fighter's tracking. Rey takes the Falcon into one of the Star Destroyers and just as the pursuing fighter locks onto their ship, she turns the Falcon out into the open, and performs a flip which allows Finn to fire successfully at the remaining fighter, taking it down. They head off, away from Jakku, and on toward the wider galaxy. Not having flown in years, the Falcon is not in good repair, and almost immediately requires an emergency patch. Rey begins repairing the ship while Finn admits to BB-8 he is not part of the resistance, but is still able to convince BB-8 to tell them where the Resistance base is.The Falcon is then captured and pulled into a larger ship. Finn is afraid they have been recaptured by the First Order. As the Falcon is boarded, he and Rey hide in a secret compartment, but the boarding party is actually Han Solo and Chewbacca.Rey knows the history of the ship, and how to repair and fly it. Han is impressed, but the ship is then boarded by two more smuggler parties. Han is trying his hand at smuggling again, this time by carrying some menacing Rathtars. Han tries to talk his way out of his debts with the two smuggling groups while Rey and Finn escape. Rey tries to close blast doors to save Han, but instead opens the doors to the Rathtar containers. The Rathtars attack and eat the smugglers and almost get Finn, but Rey saves him by closing a door on the creature's tentacles, severing them. The heros escape in the Millennium Falcon and leave their attackers behind.
The new-found allies travel to the green planet of Takodana to seek help from Maz Kanata, an orange skinned alien. There they are spotted in the cantina by both First Order and Resistance spies. Kylo Ren sends forces to re-capture the map. Finn, still fearful of being recaptured by the First Order, admits that he is not part of the Resistance and decides to run by joining a crew heading for the outer rim.Meanwhile Rey is drawn to the lower floor of the cantina by the sound of a girl crying and opens a box to discover Luke Skywalkers lightsaber lost at Cloud City. When she touches the lightsaber she experiences a frightening vision. The dream has the voices of old Jedi like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. It flashes by quickly. She sees the hallways of Cloud City, a vision of Skywalker and R2-D2, a vision of Kylo Ren surrounded by bodies, thrusting his saber through the chest of a mysterious figure, a vision of herself being abandoned as a child on Jakku and finally she sees Ren pursing her in a snowy forest.On Starkiller Base, a snowy, mountainous planet, General Hux addresses legions of First Order stormtroopers. He angrily declares the death of the Republic. The planet has a massive trench around the equator, and a continent-sized aperture. The base fires a massive red beam from the center of the planet, traveling across space, and splitting into four separate beams which destroy individual planets. We see crowds of people on populated planets look up into the sky to witness the conflagration as their planet is destroyed.Rey is frightened by her vision and refuses Luke's lightsaber, running out into the forest of Takodana. Finn and the others look to the sky as the red beams can be seen destroying the other Republic planets. The First Order begin landing troops, including Kylo Ren's V-winged ship. Maz gives the lightsaber to Finn. As the stormtroopers attack Finn uses the lightsaber to fight back, but is knocked down by another stormtrooper (unnamed, but popularly referred to as TR-8R). The stormtroopers capture Han, Chewbacca and Finn.Rey tries to use the blaster given to her by Han Solo, but inexperienced and frightened she fumbles with the safety and fires wild shots giving away her position. Overwhelmed she runs deeper into the forest. BB-8 follows, and she tells him to go further on while she tries to fight off their pursuers. Kylo Ren tracks down Rey in the woods. He chases her through the forest easily fending off her desperate attempts to fire on him with the blaster. She backs away, but he stops her, using the Force to hold her still. Ren uses the Force to read her mind and discovers that she has seen the map to Luke Skywalker's location. He decides he no longer needs BB-8, so he knocks her out and carries her off in his ship, as Finn watches.The Resistance X-wing fighters arrive, finishing off the last troops. A troop ship lands carrying General Leia Organa and C-3P0. Han and Leia are reunited, but their relations are tense. It is revealed that Kylo Ren is actually their son. The heroes return to the Resistance Base, where Finn is reunited with Poe Dameron, who was not killed by the crash on Jakku. BB-8 is reunited with R2-D2 and C-3P0, but R2-D2 has been in shut down since Luke left many years before.The Resistance fighters begin to plan an attack on the Starkiller Base to avoid being wiped out. Finn wants to rescue Rey, and claims he once worked at Starkiller Base and knows how to knock out the shields. Han and Leia say their goodbyes as the X-wings led by Poe Dameron prepare to attack a weak point on the base. As they part Leia asks Han to bring their son home if he sees him.On Starkiller Base, Rey wakes to find her self locked in an interrogation chair like the one we have seen earlier in Poe's interrogation scene. Kylo Ren and she converse, and he removes his mask, revealing his face to her; he is a young and handsome man. Ren uses the Force to read Rey's mind. He senses her lonely life on Jakku, her dreams of a far away island and the closeness she feels towards Han Solo. She reacts with hostility but seems unable to keep him from reading her thoughts.When he tries to extract the information about the map from her mind, however, he runs up against an unexpected barrier. Rey is not only able to resist his further probing, but pushes back into Ren's mind, and tells him that he is afraid that he will never be as strong as Darth Vader. Ren is shaken by this and by her obvious strength with the Force, and he runs away to meet with Snoke in search of guidance on how to proceed.Kylo Ren and General Hux are scolded for not retrieving the droid, and Ren's inability to crack Rey's mind, by the Supreme Leader, who is only revealed as a massive hologram of an old and scarred man seated on a throne towering over them.Rey now understands that she has some Force talent, and uses the mind-trick power to escape from the stormtrooper guarding her cell. She sneaks through the Starkiller Base to the hanger to escape. Meanwhile, Han and Chewie come out of hyperspace on the planet in order to evade the shields, and crash land in the snowy forest. Finn reveals he does not know how to disable the shields; he only came back to rescue Rey. They capture Captain Phasma and force her to lower the shields.Finn, Han and Chewbacca head off to find Rey, but quickly discover that she has freed herself when they spot her scaling a wall of the base. They rush to meet her. She is surprised that they would come back for her, and embraces Finn when she learns from Chewbacca that it was Finn's idea that they come to the base to save her.Poe and the X-Wing fighters arrive and begin to land torpedos on the weak point, but it is not enough. Han and Chewbacca improvise a plan to plant explosives to blow it up instead. They split up to lay explosives in separate locations. Kylo Ren finds that Rey has escaped and is very angry. He searches the base for Rey. He stalks off onto a catwalk where Han spots him. Han approaches him on the catwalk, calling him Ben. He asks his son to return with him, and Ren offers his lightsaber, but then activates it and kills his father, pushing him off into the pit. Chewbacca, having watched the entire conversation, fires on Ren, hitting him in the side, and then detonates the explosives.Kylo Ren confronts Finn and Rey in the snowy forest. Ren is bleeding from his wound, but ignites his red fiery saber to fight. Rey raises her blaster to fire on Ren, but he throws her against a tree with a Force push and she lies unconscious in the snow. Finn rushes to her aid and then uses the blue lightsaber to fight Ren. Finn quickly finds himself outmatched. He manages to touch Ren with the saber, but this only enrages him.Rey is revived by the sound of Finn's screams as he is burned by Ren's saber. Ren easily disarms Finn, tossing the saber off into the snow. He then uses the Force to pull the lightsaber to himself. It hurtles towards him but then flies past. Ren turns to discover the saber in Rey's hands. They begin to fight. Rey initially fights unsuccessfully and desperately, and begins to run from Ren. He pursues her and pins her against the edge of a cliff. Ren offers to teach her the Force, but this only ends up reminding her to tap into its power. She closes her eyes for a moment of meditation and then attacks Ren with a new vigor and power. She rapidly gains the upper hand, extinguishes Ren's saber and cuts him on the arm and across the face.Meanwhile Poe Dameron and the X-Wing pilots fly into the Star Killer base trench, destroying the rest of the base. The planet begins to collapse and explode. A chasm opens between Ren and Rey as the planet continues to fall apart. Chewbacca arrives in the Millennium Falcon to pick up both Finn and Rey. The Falcon and X-Wings escape as the Starkiller Base explodes. Back at the Resistance base, Leia and Rey embrace in sadness, standing apart from the celebration of the rest of the Resistance base.Back at the Resistance Base, R2-D2 awakens and reveals the missing part of the map to Lukes location. Finn is still unconscious, and Rey tells him goodbye while he rests. Rey and Chewbacca leave in the Falcon, Rey taking the pilot's seat. They fly to the planet indicated by the map, where Rey carefully climbs a rocky island. When she reaches the top, she finds an old cloaked and bearded Jedi with a metal hand. It is Luke Skywalker. Rey wordlessly offers him the lightsaber.

Tags: good versus evil, revenge, humor, murder, violence

Review:
Disney has subverted Star Wars into one of its lame and boring childish films aimed at selling toys to preteens.
You don't play cards with them or serve them dinner or take them to the friends' house.Star Wars is dead (but we respect and cherish the old films, memories and legacy) and Jar Jar and his corporate raider buddies are still dragging around its corpse.
I hope Disney enjoys the billions it made from stupid people watching the death star with the same flaw as the old models blow up again..
On the one hand, the 1977 film Star Wars was a masterpiece on the other Episode VII is a naked cash grab that could have been making fun of the Star Wars phenomenon.JJ, Disney and the media prostitutes should jump off a cliff.
We have a scrap dealer who can fly a spaceship (while she didn't even have a guardian to teach her how to brush her teeth, let alone....), we have an old rusty spaceship that can still fly perfectly sitting there for her to pilot better than the last master into the stars (btw she is a scrap dealer, but they let the said spaceship to sit there waiting), we have a sewage scrubber who is deployed on the vanguard of a raiding party (environment laws were quite liberal regarding empire sorties a long long time ago) and then we have a temper tantrum cosplay boy who drops his mask everything the girls don't respond to him.Jar Jar Abrams' ex-wife needed the money I guess.
Instead, Disney, Bad Robot and Mr. Rop Off Abrams bring you a putrid rubbish reboot that is inferior to many a fan fiction on Dailymotion and YouTube and has last-minute inferior community drama actors and actresses.
It's very conventional in its Sunday morning TV message and the morality tale that it tells is quite conventional, and of course, we know the end of the story, either because we have watched Star Wars or because we have seen enough films from Hollywood or for both reasons.
All the critics and professional reviewers loved this movie and gave it great reviews, but now that I watch this film it is a rip off of the original and much much much better film.
I mean, humanity is in decline.Not only was the script and so-called directing pathetic and nonsense supreme, but also the acting my goodness (or as the accountants at Disney and JJ would say oy vey) was so bad that I can find high school students who could walk onto the set and show more depth.If I had directed and conceived The Force Awakens I would never get laid again.
The treasury department awakens.After the painful sell out by George Lucas to the evil Disney empire we get this modern day cliche-laden standard issue gender switch reboot that will inspire a whole number of accounting departments to demand even more remakes and gender switch films with simplistic story lines.
It's a sad movie where Star Wars becomes a simplistic and childish film where everything happens too easily for the ugly Mary Sue. Don't listen to the positive reviews by Disney contractors in India and The Philippines it's a sad attempt at bilking cash from morons.That is all..
I want to add a note about this movie here on IMDb for the record then I want to add a thanks to IMDb to Disney and JJ Abarams the director of the new Disney (first made by Disney corporation).The note is that many people are calling JJ Abarams Jar jar.
Thanks for making Star Wars stink to high heavens (also not forget the amateur community theater joke so-called actors Rey and Finn): if episode 7 was good I would have to spend money on sequels and Rogue One and so on.
They called it episode VII, but all I saw was a remake of the original, albeit with the trendy girl in charge instead of a man - you know grrrl power cliche - let's sue Disney and JJ Abrams for false advertising.
How dare he redo the original Star Wars script and call it a new movie or a sequel??
At least, next time make some sense, or watch the original movie you are ripping off closely to understand how this force stuff works or make the female lead attractive by making her lose weight or show some leg.
By the time a tiny weenie fighter comes and with one shot destroys their death star via the same fatal flaw as every other bad guy's death star I am long gone.Thanks Judas Junk Abrams for showing the way to make credits without an original idea..
Second the clone storm trooping soldier looks nothing like his ancestor Third the clone storm trooping soldier shoots exactly like his ancestor and every other soldier of the empire: in all the wrong directions and with zero skill Fourth they build another death star with the same stupid fault that has been proved in all of universe to cause its destruction And remember JJ directed so even if he had not been lazy and missed all these elements he would have picked up the script at the hasidic accountants office so it would be written not for art, love or message, but for cash.
It was inspired, but new, different and still original.Fast forward forty years and the system, output and control is dominated by people who just clone (remake/reboot/sequel), who have no love or care for the 'product' (Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams, Iger, et cetra) and are mostly versed in marketing, launch, cost/benefit analysis and universes.Audiences have responded by pouring a billion dollar into a system that forgoes good acting, a semblance of story and a sense of originality for franchising, sales technique and cliches presented as modernism.
The fault is with the audiences who attend, watch and purchase a movie that is nothing more than this week's gender switch row on an accounting balance sheet complete with yet another death star that has the same flow as three death stars before it and a member of a clone troop squadron that looks nothing like the man he was cloned from.It is time to go outdoors for a jog, to learn how to grind coffee at home or plant a tree in the backyard and nurture and tend to it until it fully grows.
The acting in this movie is terrible and amateurish, but actually looks good compared to the greedy slithering money hunger of JJ Abrams and Disney.
I am talking about the lame acting, the addiction of jar jar to remakes and Disney's endless sequels that people pay to watch.
A Rerun With A Continuity Gap. I am not the world's biggest Star Wars fan, but I have watched the old episode 6 (and the 2 before it).
It is an example that will be discussed in film schools for years.Disney Corporation takes control of Star Wars and takes the world's best, most exciting, most highly regarded and intelligent universe and story and turns into the biggest sad joke of a sordid and pathetic offal ever.
How they can take an amazing and amusing message of truth, goodness and faith in the future and make it an exercise in corporate marketing immersed in the cloning and replicating with the world's silliest junior actors and actresses is a testament to the moral and ethical bankruptcy of cinema and Disney Corporation.It takes a lot.They did not even bother to acknowledge what the story line and events of previous Star Wars films were!!!.
Stop with making movies only for 6 year olds, stop with the gender switches (otherwise when will the male Cinderella be out, Disney?), stop violating the philosophy of a universe, stop resurrecting old characters who are dead to carry your useless new characters, speaking of which stop introducing sheepish and useless new characters played by actors and actresses who are unappealing and as shocked as us to have a role in front of a camera and finally stop having boy wonder directors who should be waiters or valets in actuality..
The Force Awakens is a rip off film that really gets back to copying the adventure of the original films.This new cover version of the Star Wars saga really takes you back to that galaxy far far away.
It sees the return of some familiar faces that really reminds you why you liked the originals and don't this one, but it also brings in a few losers like John Boyega, Daisy Ridley and Oscar Isaac all play their roles very robotically knowing they are redoing someone else's role.The main homeboy Kylo Ren played by Adam Driver is also a lowlight, and he manages to be the emo teen you love to hate that we have been looking to beat up since grade school.The clone way in which the movie was made really helps set the wrong tone to make it a scam of the original trilogy, which I think is embarrassing, abundant green screen and phony characters and a big focus on story copying, deja vu sets and unimaginative costumes.BB-8 the new droid on the block, is very likable and a worthy substitute for R2-D2.
(Although given the actors and story what would not look good in comparison?) The only thing I feel that would have saved this trash heap of a movie down would be if the girl wore a mini skirt or had good looks or something - which she does not - so the cloned plot is not helped.Boring snoozefest meant to pickpocket the stupid.
Next year (or is this year?) they will send another Star Wars to the cinema, which will be as uncool as this and reanimate the old actors with digitization and everyone will rush to see it.No wonder people are getting fatter and fatter yet the drive-through line at McDonalds is as long as ever..
Depends if the fans can stop Disney and make it stop making so-called Star Wars films or sell the rights.
Could it be that the new director or writer have never watched Star Wars films before?
The dotard comes on TV and says he will stand up for America but he only ripped off Americans, imported Chinese steel and makes his MAGA crap in ChinaThis movie says it is Star Wars but it is just a cheap knock off with a Mary Sue who is ugly and rip off story line done cheaplyMAGA fans should love it.
Maybe because Hollywood forced a gender switch?My real complaint is this: how is Disney allowed to con people and call it a new story?Someone pass me the Advil while I try to get this film out of my system.
I am referring to a story, any character development or acting capability.Did they find this director, writer and cast at the dollar store or at Wal-Mart because those are the only two options.You want to be a lose with a L then continue watching these Disney turds or tell your friends you are interested in Disney 'Star Wars.' Phew I need a shower..
This movie disappointed all the way and a whole new generation will start believing that Star Wars is a second-rate popcorn trash entertainment and nothing more.
If you are like me and feel that this movie has burned you, write a review, don't trust any of the critics as they are all paid by the same people they are reviewing, and don't get in arguments with friends who found this trash good, everyone sees art differently, Star Wars, before the terrible prequels (which are still better than the force awakens) was the reason I learned who Joseph Campbell was and which led to other journeys this hero would take, I was inspired by those movies to be a better person, to believe in myself, and to now, after seeing the force awakens, I wish I had a trick to Immediately forget what I just saw, because my heart is broken, and I feel like I never want to go to the cinema again or support the movie moguls with anymore money as they put forth soulless movies that stand on top of the minds of geniuses from the past and totally urinate on viewers like they did with this.
You made a bad Star Wars film and then had to go on a campaign to tell everyone to see this in 3D just so Disney could make more money.
Story is boring...What a shame!I do like the first Star wars trilogy, with "the empire strikes back" as my favorite, this is by the way the film in the trilogy George Lucas himself dislikes the most.
That pretty much explains why the second trilogy was so bad, as "The Empire Strikes back" spends more time developing a story than the other two films in the original trilogy, and therefor you get more attached to the characters.I rated the movie 2/10 to counterbalance all the fake votes which have been entered to prop up the average rating.
This film gets so many thing wrongs when it comes to Star Wars.
They've made a mockery of a great film series, and they know fans will support it because of their love for the series, but Disney just doesn't have the direction to do it right.
I did not feel cheated, the movie is good and worth it, but I must admit that anything is lacking to match the older ones.The film basically resumes the story decades after the events of "The Return of the Jedi".
I think the new actors like John Boyega, Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver did their best, but I do not know if the material they received allowed them to create characters as striking as the older ones.Technically, the film is flawless.
I had a Star Wars weekend and watched all six first films.
Recently I came to the realization that my biggest problem with this film, which increases every time I rewatch it, is that without its connections to Star Wars as a franchise this film would be just another forgettable family-friendly action/adventure popcorn film that very few people would care about after the first 24 hours of leaving the cinema.
I saw the next two as well but understandably nothing could ever match the impact of the first, in all ways it was special and will always stand alone - all unknown actors (mostly) doing a good enough job so no distractions there, exceptionally well-written and as a result rich and endearing characters, fantastic real-life special effects, engrossing story, true-to-life grubbiness and so on.that said, my review of this new one is hardly from a biased standpoint, if #7 wasn't a "star wars" movie it might never have been made, it's pretty bad right from the start through to the end.
Aside from all the hype, which crummy movies usually get when the producers need to recoup their losses on the films budget by fooling folks into spending their hard earned money to waste time, I could tell this one would be a stinker.One main reason I was more than disappointed at this travesty was the format it took to almost completely emulate new hope in its entirety.
But this movie defiled everything that was star wars, and all because abrams ( I am tired of honoring him with correct name spelling) cant focus on one film job at a time even if lucas wrote him a plan to make it work.
Abrams work on the franchise makes the systematic eradication of the Jedi by Palpatine and all the wars in those far away stars look like a halo tournament.
Star Wars: The Farce Awakens is easily the worst movie of the "franchise".
I am writing this review in time to warn people against watching the new Star crap movie.
Aside from all the standard Disney boring and tedious clichés like one-liner non-funny jokes which came at the pace one every three minutes (which made Star Wars a new episode of Ice Age!!!!) and the non-clone clone storm troopers why one earth would they think we want to watch a movie about a third orphan on a third desert planet??
Best way to do that destroying would be to make the movie LOOK good, but on the level of the real story and the essence of Star Wars just rape and ridicule everything and especially completely look away from the Force and make all the great characters look like idiots.If this is someone's goal the they have succeeded and also they have succeeded in fooling hundreds of thousands of people into thinking that this was good movie???
This was terrible.I love the Star Wars and this movie ("coarse awakens") has got nothing to do with it.
I will never accept it part of the world of Star Wars.The only good thing this movie can cause is that those who have open eyes will see how lost and illusion ed most people are.
In fact, by the time you get to the end of the film, you discover that there was really no story in the first place, only the THREAT of a story based wholly upon the original "Star Wars" saga, and what there might be to come.
If you never saw the first "Star Wars" movies, you would wonder why anyone made this film and what it was about.
It's like one big trailer for some future movie, which it no doubt is - all about the money it makes, and it's made plenty - because everyone was sucked in by this shadow of a "Star Wars" story due to its name and the chance to see the original iconic characters in action once again, which you really don't.
Some people like Star Wars so much that they are blind to all logic because they already decided that move was flawless before they even saw it.