Overrated, but not bad.

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2017)

Many are praising this movie saying its the best star wars yet and its better than the force awakens but sadly, i disagree. i don't believe it was bad but i don't believe it was great.
I would like to start this review with the positives. I loved the entire Battle on Scariff. It was ruthless and intense, like a "Saving Private Ryan" feeling but star wars. I also enjoyed K-2SO's sarcastic humor and Ben Mendelsohn played an amazing bad guy. Lastly the ending was so intense i couldn't move as Vader just slaughters rebel troops. Even though I knew the rebels eventually get the plans i still received goosebumps during the scene.
The negatives to Rogue One mainly fall in the first hour of the movie. You are introduced to the new characters but it felt off putting switching to a new location every so often and having many useless scenes. It feels like the first hour of the film was a mixture of introduction and filler and the real movie starts when they get to Scariff. Another factor that falls on the negative is the CGI characters that are actually getting praise. The CG Tarkin looked OK until he stood by someone and it stuck out pretty bad. The Leah wasn't so bad but i would have really enjoyed the scene better if they didn't show her face at all. The final negative to this movie was the score. After viewing the film the first time none of the music in the film called out to me at all. In the force awakenings i felt the score was more star wars. But the score for Rogue one wasn't bad but most star wars movies have amazing scores.
Rogue One is a good movie, not a great movie, not a bad movie. I enjoyed the last 45 minutes a lot but still fell to my expectations.