Rey is awesome.
BB8 is super cool.
But I hope they do not toss R2 to the side because of it. R2 is the most awesome character of all the series, saving their asses countless times and could be considered as the secret lead character.
(If you look at it closely you'll understand what I mean.)
Bad sides for me is that it has no space combat at all(after Episode III...) we do not even see a bunch of Star Destroyers patrolling etc... That side of the film is too blank tbh. One Star Destroyer with a close up shots did not satisfy me at all.
Rebels still looks like a tribe than rebels.(Episode IV has budget and tech issues I know but this is new, shoot in 2015 and with Disney support.) It has a big budget. So why the hell rebels still doesn't have proper ships? They attack a Death Star planet with 20 X-Wings and greeted by a bunch of Tie Fighters? If this place is a big deal, I would have expected it to be defended better than a kindergarden.
They literally walk into the base, undetected with no guards, nothing. The place feels like it's been guarded by like 20 guards?
JJ again messed up the original feeling of the series by bringing up some stupid shit. In Star Trek he invented a transwarp beaming system which completely messed up the series logic. You can apparently now beam into a moving ship anywhere in the galaxy which has ruined entire Starship concept.
In Star Wars, he does this by stupidly changing hyperdrive concept. Apparently you can now go into hyperdrive from inside a ship or pass a shield with it now.
Seriously, film starts good but ends mediocre. That's what it ruined for me and space travel. Luckily Han Solo performance and Rey(also BB8) saved the film a little for me that's why I give it 6.5/10.
JJ films always have continuity issues and this one has it as well and it doesn't surprise me one bit.