Seven out of 10? So it's good?
No! It's not good enough!
It's so easy. This movie should have been 9 out of 10. Part of it, including the premise, has been written more than 30 years ago. If you know the Star Wars story, you would know there will be a lot of deaths in this movie (because none of these characters appear in A New Hope). All director Gareth Edwards has to do, is to make every death count; every death to pull at the audience's heartstrings. By the end of the movie, the whole cinema should be in tears. Simple as that.
But what Edwards failed to do in Godzilla, he failed again here. There was no heart and no emotion in the humans in Godzilla. And here, there's no heart and no emotion. Even with so many deaths I felt nothing.
The character development for each of the main cast are so weak that only the sons of Jedha had a good arc. But as if to balance that out, their deaths were the weakest. It's as if they over choreographed for one and didn't know what to do for the other.
There has only been one memorable death and it was the first one.
Having said all that, it was still a very solid piece of entertainment. I just don't know if non-fans would be able to enjoy this as a movie because if you remove everything that is Star Wars about Rogue One, it could just be a snooze fest.
But it is a Star Wars movie. There's no Rogue One without everything else that has come before it. So it isn't a movie made for non Star Wars fans. Everything from the different planets, the X-Wings, the new AT-ATs, to the old and new Troopers, and of course, Darth Vader. Everything that is Star Wars in here worked. No fans would be disappointed when Vader came onscreen.
But in other words though, this movie won't bring in new fans. Maybe it wasn't meant to.
Still, Edwards is going into my blacklist for directors. He was not adequate for a Star Wars property.
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