I didn’t like the times when JJA played tricks on the audience:
- Nose of Star Destroyer that has the silhouette of an X-wing
I don’t think that was supposed to be a trick; it went by too quickly for it to work, at least for me. However I’m probably never going to unsee that now, so there’s that.
As for my own complaints, the easiest ones that come to mind are some choices in editing. I’ll use the fight at Maz’s Cantina as my example. The shot between when the group gets taken into custody has a fairly sudden cut to the Stormtroopers preparing to fight the oncoming X-wings. When I watch it I can’t help but feel like there was supposed to be a scene between those two shots. Later on in the fight, when Ren meets Rey, it cuts to a stormtrooper making a remark about needing air support, and then the next cut goes back to the two of them, with a Storm Trooper coming in asking for said air support. You probably could have put the “we need air support” at the end of the scene with the X-wings, and then not interrupt the Rey/Kylo Ren scene.