Rogue One Review
Last night my fiancé and I went to see Rogue One, here is his review!
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Rogue One is a decent movie, although it can be very confusing to people who haven't seen Episode IV, A New Hope. For a 'standalone' movie, it's major plot point leads into A New Hope, for a start, and it has so many mini-glances at other Star Wars movies, including a cameo from a pair of droids which I was unsure about, especially given their importance to the rebellion in episodes 1-6… so for 10 years randomly they weren't very important at all then came back being more important?
The whole thing starts with former Imperial Research Scientist Galen Erso being taken back into the Empire from his quiet life farming after a standoff which results in his wife's death. He is tasked with architecting the Death Star, although his exact role is never really elaborated upon. His daughter Jyn is rescued, raised and then abandoned by Saw Gerrera, we find out later it was for her own safety due to people in the Rebel Alliance wanting to use her as bait.
Jyn ends up with the hands of the Rebel Alliance and, after dashing between what seems like 100,000 planets and moons, sees a message from her father, informing of a defect in the Death Star he has built in on purpose so that it may be destroyed.
Jyn tries to get the Rebel Council to agree to steal the blueprints but they… refuse, so she goes it alone with a motley crew of about 15 people.
Insert comment about the force being with you.
Insert droid cameo.
So we're off to steal the blueprints and we know how this ends… there's a lot of action, and a lot of different coloured Storm Troopers die, all our new characters die because they had to otherwise they'd be in A New Hope which already exists without them.
Darth Vader is there, he kills a load of people with a red lightsaber in the last few seconds before we get some pretty impressive editing done to Carrie Fisher's face to make her look 40 years younger.
There's an underlying theme of hope in the movie, setting up 'A New Hope' a little more subtly than the obvious plot follow on. (I said a little. The amount of times they mention 'rebellions are built on hope' kinda makes you think they're pushing it a bit too much)
One thing which did really annoy me was the lack of an opening crawl. I'm deducting a point for that.
Overall I'd rate it 3/5, it could be better. The characters are a little hollow but what do you expect for a movie where everybody you just watched dies. It's definitely not a standalone movie, I'd say it's more like Episode 3.9: Rogue One, as it's pretty much immediately preceding Episode 4.
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