Well, I seem to be in the vast minority of people who thought that was a load of rubbish.

If I wanted to watch A New Hope, I'd watch A New Hope.

Luke had Force potential but he never discovered it on his own. Obi-Wan brought it out in him through tutelage, albeit brief. Rey is suddenly using force pulls, mind tricks and going toe-to-toe with a Sith with no guidance whatsoever!

Leia should be the hardest, tough-as-nails bitch in the entire universe. She's had a horrible life and has had to struggle through. She lost her mother in child birth. She lost her father to the Darkside. Her adopted home world was blown up. Her son turned to the Darkside. Luke chucked a hissy fit and ran off. And Han left to go back to being a smuggler. She's had nothing but pain in her life. She should be rough as guts and a no-nonsense leader. Instead, she was a wimp.

Luke went off to find the first Jedi temple? Did a 10-yearold fan-fic writer come up with that?

Every line Han had was said with a wink to the audience. The older fans are watching, you don't need to pander to them with all the overt references.

And the dialogue in general was just plain awful.

Kylo has a tanty but just takes stuff out with his lightsabre? I thought when Siths got mad, power poured out of them and stuff all around them got crushed? That would have been far more intimidating. In that second tanty, the Stormtroopers were just thinking "Oh, there he goes again. Oh well..." They should have been terrified!

Mr. Black Stormtrooper doesn't like death and losing his friends, so he decides to join the Resistance, and suddenly killing people is just fine!

The only redeeming feature was the chemistry between the two leads, but that doesn't make up for the 2+ hours of disappointment.