Easily the worst film of the Star Wars franchise.

Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2017)

So the prequels are starting to look pretty amazing compared to the two most recent "Star Wars" films. The Force Awakens was a terrible remake that wasn't even supposed to be a remake and this film is some sort of off-shoot that was just terribly done from start to finish. Let's start with the casting. The Jyn Erso girl was annoying and had nothing redeeming or interesting about her. Not sure if that one is on the writing or acting but the character is very bland. Forest Whitaker tried way to hard with his character and he ended up just sounding like someone doing a bad impression of Bane from Batman. Diego Luna was out of place the entire movie. I think he thought he was on set of Zorro instead of a Star Wars film. The CGI characters were disgusting. I've never seen such terrible work in a big-budget film. Tarkin looked like a guy from a PS2 game and Leia looked like a light bulb. If they so badly wanted those characters in this movie, they should have just cast some look-alikes and that would've looked much better and not taken away so much from the film. You couldn't pay attention to the movie when either Tarkin or Leia was on screen because they were so distracting with their awkward CGI. I do not understand how when screening the film before release someone didn't tell the director/producers that Tarkin and Leia were laughable and they look awful. The script was clumsy and cluttered, and the names of things were even worse. Bor Gullet? Seriously? At least Lucas came up with legitimate sounding names and didn't just use words from a human anatomy book. K2-SO was alright but his attempt to be different from past droids was all too obvious. Yes, this wasn't supposed to feel like a part of the seven episodes and was supposed to be darker, but it achieved those in a very bad way that just made for a bad movie. Nice idea, but terribly executed.