Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) by Grantd243 — 24 Apr 2018

Rogue One was Disney's first stab at a non-Skywalker saga film and it was a valiant first attempt. It did its job of filling the gap of time that we don't see before A New Hope starts, but it's not without its flaws.

The biggest problem with this film, which leads to other problems, is that we only get one movie with this cast of characters. This was something that was set in stone from the beginning, so they had to try to make us care about these characters in a pretty tight running time.

And, unfortunately, they don't execute this task as well as they could have. The rest of the movie is pretty damn good. We get some classic Star Wars scenes, and some interesting plot lines. There's also some excellent comedy in this film (much better than than Diney's other two Star Wars films).

But, the characters are pretty shallow as I said and it's hard to truly care about them when the movie expects us to, and as a result the film isn't as good as it could have been.