Personally, I'm not sold on this film. Felicity Jones seems flat to me so far. I'm also not a big War film fan. We all know the ending, so how do they keep us in suspense?
Yeah...maybe...but I meant from teh filmmaking perspective. I get that TFA wanted to return to its roots, but it kinda did so at the expense of anything new. I mean, it's all X-Wings, TIEs, and a big, round super weapon. I like the movie, I do, but I'd have liked to see at least a few truly new designs. Even if half the Resistance fleet had slightly upgraded Y-Wings (like their slightly upgraded X-Wings), that would have been a start.
They were so desperate to not do a Lucas style eye candy film...that they forgot that what made star wars a smash was that it introduced awesome new ships/characters/story elements in each film.