Good but not special

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2016)

I really didn't know that to think going in. I really had no idea what the movie was even about so I went in with little in the way of preconceived notions.
Rogue One is not quite the fanboy orgy that Force Awakens was. Though it is there you just have to look a little closer. The beginning is very jumbled and a bit clunky. Not a deal breaker though. The ending in my mind has the greater sin in trying really too hard to tie hen into A New Hope. So forcibly is it tied in that it renders part of the start of A New Hope into contradiction.
The characters are good but nothing really to make you feel all that much for any of them.I really wanted to like them but nothing.
Really this film I would say is on par with Revenge of the Sith so a middle of the road film that does it's job but won't really be remembered. Heck it doesn't even get a number. Though considering that that number would be 0 I suppose I can get why they went this way.