Could have been so much better

Rating: 4/10 (2 April 2017)

I have seldom been so disappointed by a Star Wars movie. I guess, in part, this is due to how much Rogue One had been hyped. Visually, it was everything you might expect from a Star Wars movie. The characters were somewhat better drawn than most films in this series. Where it really let down was in the editing. In my opinion, no movie better illustrates the impact that editing has on a film. The editing here was analogous to having the perfect flowers and a beautiful vase, and putting them together blooms down. It just bogged down in long stretches of tedium in between short bursts of brilliance. I would gladly watch it again, if it were cut down to 90 minutes by a talented editor.