One of the best Star Wars Films.

Rating: 8/10 (24 December 2016)

The movie is made in a very different way from a traditional Star Wars trilogy films, and you will get to know this right from the start. The movie have a fairly simple story, but excel in the story- telling the director have done a great job in directing a Star Wars movie that is different from every other Star Wars movie yet feels so familiar. The movie starts with a young Jyn Erso and the story revolves her throughout the film. However there are a lot of other characters in the movie like Cassian Andor, Chirrut, Baze Malbus, Saw Gurrera, Bodi Rock K-2SO (My fav droid after R2D2), and each and every new character have been given a back story that explains how they ended up in the movie and what were they doing before. The best part is that each character is defined in a very decent manner that all have their own personality and combined with their backstory, this makes each character different form other, which is important when you are telling a story how people from different past and different origins come together to achieve a common goal and plays their part in the mission. Director Gareth Edwards have done a tremendous job in directing the movie; he gave sufficient screen time to all the characters while telling the story that takes place in different place (or planets) and connecting the entire event that took place before and after this movie. However I felt that the pace of the story is bit inconsistent at few moments and becoming slow, but it pick-up quickly and doesn't drag any scene longer than needed. The script is somewhat better than the story as is contain strong dialog, nicely explained characters and interlinked events and good amount of humor (which I was not expecting). All the actors have done nicely portrayed their roles, I loved K-2SO and Chirrut and I felt he was the strongest character in the movie and one of the best characters in the franchise Donnie Yen have done a marvelous job. Cassian Andor is another character I liked, I didn't like Jyn Erso much because I was expecting something else and she was entirely different. Director Krennic is an awesome villain. There are a lot of people you'll see in the film from the original trilogy but most of them either for support or make cameo. Darth Vader as we have seed in the trailers is there in the movie and let me just say it he is rad. (He is at his best in this film). The movie is filed with action be it on surface or in the space. The battle sequences are very well choreographed and the use of special effect and CGI is just incredible (although I don't like CGI very much in Star Wars). The climax and the sense after that are the best part of the film; I was literally jumping on my seat while watching it. Music is not very good in this movie which is disappointing but they did some of the original trilogy's music. CGI have been used extensively in the film. Overall this is one of the best Star Wars films. Do not miss this one and once you watch it you will definitely want to watch it again.