[spoiler]The guy and girl main characters were kind of meh. It seemed like the trailers were building up Finn to be the one destined to learn the force, yet it ended up being the annoying female that is amazingly lucky and bullshit. I mean, how is it she basically mastered the force enough without any practice to use the mind tricks and even fight again Kylo Ren's mind searching force trick? Since when did she learn how about how to do all these tricks? Overall, her character just annoyed me and I'd rather Finn had been the one with force powers.
Also, the movie was pretty good, but it was like I was just watching Episode 4 made in 2015: you have a "Obi-wan, you're my only hope moment" at the beginning as well as what is equivalent to the scene where leia's ship was boarded in Episode 4, there's a planet destroying weapon threatening the rebel base, and there's a trench run. Some of the jokes were decent, but it seemed like it was trying really hard to ride the nostalgia of the old movies with jokes like the trash compactor and what not.
Overall, the movie had great special effects, beautiful scenery, and wasn't that bad. I'd probably watch it a second time around.[/spoiler]
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A couple things I was dissapointer in -the plot of finding Luke. The entire movie should have focused on this instead of shoving in star killer weapon for every one to deal with( it was a great idea but it should have been put in episode 8 or 9 instead). The ending to was horible r2 d2 waking up at the last minute magically having the remaining piece of the map that's a load of bs. What they should have done is have the characters search for the missing piece instead of blowing up a planet. - A couple of the new characters where disappointments. Ray was alright and exceeded my expectations. Finn was okay but sometimes I felt that the movie was trying set him up as comic relief when I would have preferred him to be more badda$$. The pilot (I forget his name) the movie should have at least showed a scene on how he survived the crash instead of giving us one sentence. Kyle Ren interesting personality but they need to make him way tougher. Captain phasma... this girl is a joke and should have been scrapped from the movie.