Attack of the B Team

Rating: 5/10 (13 January 2017)

A B team of heroes fights a failing Imperial middle manager. That's Rogue One in a nut shell. But it's the bestest ever Star Wars movie because DIVERSITY! - except all the main bad guys are white males.
But there's a cool warrior monk! He says this mantra abut the force, "allowing him to have full use of his senses and makes his blindness a non-issue". That is, until he has to pull a switch. Then he flails around just like I would if I had my eyes closed.
The whole Rogue One team dies - each one either while taking pivotal actions to save the mission, or just after taking pivotal actions to save the mission.
A Disney big franchise movie can't miss the opportunity to re-imagine scenes from older Star Wars movies. So this has a re-imagining of the star destroyer flying into another one. It has a re-imagining of Luke facing the fiend who killed his father - the young heroine faces the middle manager who killed her mother.
"I have a bad feeling about this..." goes to the re-programmed imperial droid. But the "this" is cut off. It's supposed to be funny, and it is a nod at the re-imagining going on in the Disney SW Universe. We don't need the old clichés because we have diversity.
There is a meaningless cameo from R2D2 and C3PO. CGI Leia has a more meaningful scene. CGI Tarkin holds his own in a few longer scenes.
There aren't meaningful character arcs. People go from one thing to another without any motivation in between. There are character moments. That's better than nothing.
The movie isn't bad. But it's nothing special.