Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) by Unlimitedpower — 21 Dec 2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first of many, many stand-alone Star Wars movies.

Rogue one sets place a few weeks before A New Hope. And follows multiple main characters with no backstory.

The main problem with Rogue One is that everything in the film feels like fan service. From the CGI Grand Moff Tarkin to R2-D2 and C3-PO pointlessly being in the movie. The plot is rather... meh. It's mainly just: Travel to this planet, do this thing and fly to another planet. This keeps going every main character dies at the end. Which, I guess we're supposed to care about? Although, none of the characters had any backstory other than they hated the Empire since they were a child. And our "Heroes" doesn't really feel like heroes, they straight up murder innocent civilians and Rebel troops.

And for some reason Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader are back, although they do almost nothing in the movie. Tarkin could easily be replaced by a new character since all he did was wanting to see if the Death Star worked. And Darth Vader serves to purpose other than being there for fan service, even the ending where he kills some Rebel troops could and should have been replaced by some Stormtroopers. But, since this is Star Wars you have to prop in as many Original trilogy refrences as possible to get more people to buy tickets.

In the end, Rogue One is better than The Force Awakens, but way worse than the Original trilogy. And it's not really worth seeing unless you want to see Disney dishonor a memorable character by making him CGI.