Where is the magic?

Rating: 5/10 (17 December 2016)

I got disappointed from the get go. The Classic tones from John Williams's Star Wars Theme didn't open the film. Nor did the Star Wars Theme play at any time during the film or at the end credits. The music to Rouge One is composed by Michael Giacchino. The music isn't bad and Michael Giacchino is an excellent composer. Only Disney should had hired John Williams or at least paid him to get the permission to use his Star Wars Theme. This is one investment opportunity that the Disney executive will regret one day I am sure. All Star Wars fans wants' to hear the Star Wars Theme blast out of the speakers in the big screen cinema. The Star Wars Theme 'is' Star Wars. Without it the film can never be anymore than a 2nd grade copycat. I am sorry, but that is the Holy Truth of the Star Wars universe.
They have changed the concept somehow. They want to stay in the mythology of Star Wars, adventures in outer space in the distant future with all sorts of high tech we still haven't invented. On the other hand they want the story and the film to be more buttoned down, more in contact with the realities of the world that we are actually living in. They are trying to make Star Wars more social realistic. And that is a shame. I want the adventure in the distant future. I don't need Disney to point their moral fingers at me telling me how to live my life and be a good human being.
There is clearly something wrong with Rouge One. Very disappointing.
So the good stuff.
Well, the character Saw Gerrera played by Forest Whitaker is amazing. Truly amazing. 99% because of Forest Whitaker's acting and interpretation of the character. So when he dies with only 10 minutes screen time you feel disappointed, cheated and lost. You can feel that you want to have this character in all future Star Wars films, but now he is gone... (or is he??? - in the world of cinema you can revive anybody from the dead).
Felicity Jones (Jyn Erso) and Mads Mikkelsen (Galen Erso) are great with their characters too, but Forest Whitaker takes the prices though he, we and everybody else are being let down without John Williams's Star Wars Theme.
Disney, Disney, Disney No, No, No