The best Star Wars movie since Empire Strike Back

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2016)

ROGUE ONE fill a very small gap of the 20 years between Episode III and IV. Perhaps the proper name should be Episode 3.9 because I am pretty sure if this is successful; Disney fill create 6 or 8 episodes covering the 20 years between Darth Vader rising, the Empire, the fall of the Jedis and the coming of age of Luke and Lea (who appears in the last scene of this movie thanks to the magic of digitization. ROGUE ONE is about the stealing of the Death Star blue prints. You know from the beginning (unless you never saw the original saga) that they will succeed and who will survive; but even with that limitations writers did a far better job than with the copycat that became Episode VII. The movie is mostly formulaic, but there are some very good dialogs and better action scenes than the previous films.
Felicity Jones is good but her character is too clichéd and not particularly interesting; who really carry the movie are Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Riz Ahmed and the voice of Alan Tudyk as the cynical and comically depressing K-2SO
In brief; it is not for younger kids but worth spending 2 hours and 14 minutes.