It's real good.
Rogue One is the best Dungeon and Dragons movie ever made. A bunch of colorful adventurers band together to sneak into the evil wizard's dungeon so they can steal the magic scroll and save the kingdom. Also there's a funny robot played by Alan Tudyk.
I don't mind admitting I teared up at the end even though, you know, obviously everyone was gonna die. I was keeping it together, but then this little girl behind me started bawling, and... Yeah, no stopping then.
Also, Darth Vader's obsidian space castle is now canon. Score!
I thought it was pretty good. The lack of a title crawl to set the exposition kind of bothered me, because I spent the first 30 minutes confused and frankly very bored (I actually dozed off for a moment a couple of times). But once it picked up, it REALLY picked up. Definitely did the series justice and set the stage for Episode 4 really, really well.
Same thoughts. A little slow start, but very good once it went into the meat of things.
I wouldn't mind other spin-offs like this one, I liked it better than Episode 7.
Also, when I saw Tarkin and Leia as CG
, it made me think of the potential they had there, with maybe other returning characters? It looked mostly natural, though you could notice it was CG, but it was very impressive to see Tarkin like that.
I'm certain that the movie seriously messes with some EU novel that came out some 25-30 years ago and that the movie screws with it a bit too much for some but there's a lot to like here. Enjoyable heroes, tough but human bad guy, memorable scenes, different places, cool battles, solid directing, a number of nice nods to the continuity, and just gritty enough because it's a war with people blasting each other and teddy bears bonking guys with rocks to win the day was probably a bit too saccharine for some. Not to mention HOLY HELL is Darth Vader a goddamn terror! Every moment with him carries so much weight!
Some of it's dumb but eh. Solid watch and I stand a chance of being dragged into seeing it again and don't mind. Solid movie lots of fun 8/10.
I'd also be OK with more side stories like this but I'd prefer it didn't stray too far from the main narrative I guess? I think this filled an important gap in just how some top-secret super-weapon plans fell into the hands of some ragtag bunch of rebel scum.