Star Wars at its best

Rating: 10/10 (25 July 2017)

Very few spoilers..When I first saw the initial trailers for Rogue One I wasn't looking forward to the movie release but this is a great film, arguably the best Star Wars film ever made. I'm a mad Star Wars fan, love them all (maybe the Jar Jar one not so much) I saw this 4 times at the cinema in the first week of release It is superbly directed and acted with believable characters and a great link to "A New Hope". I think its very important that characters are believable in who they are playing (If you've seen Alien Covenant, try telling me any of the crew were believable, did the bumbling captain look like a leader lol) Rogue One is quite a dark film with characters being killed off almost as quick as they are introduced but it moves at a great pace, and it pulls it off as it is very well cast, hats off again to the casting crew, I thought Forest Whitaker was excellent as Saw, the whole cast were, especially Jyn, Cassian, Galen, Krennic and Chirrut & Baze and of course the droid K-2SO, for me the biggest surprise, how could they ever eclipse C3PO and R2D2, well they have. As most of the cast don't appear in a New Hope I'm very surprised by any criticism of how quickly they are killed off. Visually the film is stunning with great locations, if I was a storm trooper, I would want to be stationed on Scariff. The Death Star looks super menacing as it comes into view, I'm not sure given its size it would cause an eclipse but it makes it look twice as menacing. This film is what Star Wars fans have been crying out for, a darker version, with stunning locations and great fighting sequences on land and in space (If you are not keen on some of the CGI of Tarkin And Leigh...its nit-picking) The final scene when it switches from Jyn & Cassian on Scariff to Vaders ships as the Rebels try to jump back into hyperspace is incredible and ties the film superbly to "A New Hope"