As a big fan of short stories and anthologies, the thought of "one-off" episodes based in the Star Wars universe is very appealing. It was surprising then, to see how closely "Rogue One" ties into "Star Wars: A New Hope". In fact, it actually made the movie better. The closing moments were very satisfying.
There seems to be a lot of griping about the characters being too thin and not explored to any depth. It seems that since this was originally planned as a self-contained story, a carryover to another story or an extension to "The Force Awakens" plot line was not intended. A personal gripe of mine has been that most all Movie and TV viewers want to know excessive amounts of information about characters. This means everything needs to be a TV series with multiple seasons, or a movie with multiple sequels. It seems every time I read a recently released book, I find that there is no conclusion. Everything is a damned trilogy. I'm not so naive to not consider the economic benefit of turning a well received movie or book into a franchise, but when I start knowing the characters of a show as well as I know my own family, well, it gets stale fast. All that said, the fact that these characters are largely irrelevant to the continuing Star Wars story is just fine. They were all necessary heroes in the larger story.
There are some incredible special effects including one moment involving a couple of Star Cruisers that was worth the price of admission. Darth Vader is here and his moment late in the film is amazing.
Overall, there's little bad to be said about "Rogue One". It's an exciting, great looking Action movie.
Review by whitsbrainVIP 6BlockedParent2022-01-15T17:27:14Z
As a big fan of short stories and anthologies, the thought of "one-off" episodes based in the Star Wars universe is very appealing. It was surprising then, to see how closely "Rogue One" ties into "Star Wars: A New Hope". In fact, it actually made the movie better. The closing moments were very satisfying.
There seems to be a lot of griping about the characters being too thin and not explored to any depth. It seems that since this was originally planned as a self-contained story, a carryover to another story or an extension to "The Force Awakens" plot line was not intended. A personal gripe of mine has been that most all Movie and TV viewers want to know excessive amounts of information about characters. This means everything needs to be a TV series with multiple seasons, or a movie with multiple sequels. It seems every time I read a recently released book, I find that there is no conclusion. Everything is a damned trilogy. I'm not so naive to not consider the economic benefit of turning a well received movie or book into a franchise, but when I start knowing the characters of a show as well as I know my own family, well, it gets stale fast. All that said, the fact that these characters are largely irrelevant to the continuing Star Wars story is just fine. They were all necessary heroes in the larger story.
There are some incredible special effects including one moment involving a couple of Star Cruisers that was worth the price of admission. Darth Vader is here and his moment late in the film is amazing.
Overall, there's little bad to be said about "Rogue One". It's an exciting, great looking Action movie.