Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) by Udrakan — 17 Dec 2016

SPOILER-FREE REVIEW A movie from Star Wars universe. Recommended whether you saw any previous SW movies or not. This movie starts a bit weaker but it becomes an absolute masteripiece by the end! Disney wasn't afraid to go into darker events.

Yes, this isn't some happy story, this is a WAR story in Star WARS and it's absolutely amazing. It has all what I wanted from Star Wars: Space Battles, The Force, cool lovable robots, lasers and explosions, deep characters.

The Rebelion is shown from a different perspective - they are good guys, but sometimes they do shady and sad stuff to keep them selves alive. This enriches SW universe, where rebels are mostly shown as only good people.

The models and CGI are absolutely amazing. I had shivers going down my spine when I realized just how big Star Destroyer is and then they show Death Star behind it. I was in awe. Skirmishes are clever and Storm troopers are more dangerous and actualy hit people, especialy the elite back ones.

Music on-par with movie quality. Darth Vader is scary again! The scene with him is so epic and intimidating! I don't give this 10/10 for 2 reasons: 1)Weak start - first 15 minutes of film are not as good as the rest, It starts slowly with a remote family story, whcih I would rate 6/10.

2) A little bit of cliche stuff. Although amazingly well done, its another Death Star plot, and I had enough of Death star plot in SW. Even Force Awakens was enough. People in market agressively bumping character's shoulder and then shouting at them-I saw this in so many films, it's a small one, but I noticed it, among other nit-picks.

Overall it's an amazing Star Wars film and even amazing film on it's own. I totaly recommend it. My final verdict is 9/10 - It's a must see.