Its everything a Star Wars fan would "hope" for !!

Rating: 9/10 (17 December 2016)

Its action-packed, and the most dark and emotional story of the whole Star Wars Series !! I would even go say its the "Game of Thrones" of the Star Wars Series when it comes to going dark.
Its a story before the 1st ever Star Wars move (New Hope) and after the 3rd movie of the god-awful prequel series. So Rebellion has somehow discovered that the Empire is building a super weapon that can destroy planets (Death Star) and there's a scientist (Galen Erso) who helped built it and Rebellion is trying to find him. His long lost daughter (Jyn Erso) gets caught up with the Rebellion b/w all this and somehow joins the cause to go against the Empire and steal the "Death Star" plans.
The story is a little slow to pick up with the action because of all the character introductions that happen and once it does pick up, it is everything you'd hope for in a Star Wars movie, and in fact actually better. Felicity (Jyn) and Diego (Cassian) did a fairly good job being the main characters but my favorite characters were K-2SO (the droid) and Donnie Yen (Chirrut). They were both sarcastic and so much cool and actually made me care about their characters. Darth Vader's cameo was super awesome !! Couple of other old characters also had a "CGI" cameo which was well done, good fan-service.
Special effects and the whole war at the climax is top-notch and if you've been following Star Wars movies, it answers a lot of questions regarding "New Hope" movie and ties in really well with it. Overall, a must watch even if you're not into Star Wars.