Worse upon second viewing

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2020)

POSITIVES:
1) The entire third act is almost flawless
2) Riz Ahmed and Ben Mendelsohn give the best performances in the film, they're great
3) I like the darkness of Cassian being introduced by shooting his informant in the back
4) THAT Vader scene: WOW
NEGATIVES:
1) I hated pretty much everything about the first act, for example how it hops from planet to planet and introduces each planet with generic text on screen like "imperial mining base"
2) The second act could be taken out almost entirely to shorten the runtime, everything on Edu is irrelevant to the story
3) Forest Whittaker's line delivery reminded me of Oogie Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas, and I never believed that he was the same character as the guy from The Clone Wars
4) The dialogue can be very cringeworthy, especially the constant mentions of 'hope'
5) I didn't mind CGI Tarkin, but CGI Leia was terrible
6) What on Earth was the deal with that mind reading giant squid thing?!?! And why does Saw say it'll make the pilot lose his mind but then he's fine pretty much straight away???