Over-hyped movie, would give it 6 star at best

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2017)

I consider myself an above average Star War fan (seen all the movies, knows all the main stories, played a lot of games, can call out most of the spaceship types and how many laser cannons they have etc.) but seriously I think this movie is mediocre at best. IMO SW movie values is held together by three aspects: quality of the space battle, quality of the jedi/sith battles, and special scenes or eye poppers; and recent SW movies' been poor in all three aspects. Maybe it's the fact that I'm not the die-hard type fan that I can keep my neutral judgment when it comes to movies from this franchise, but here are my two cents:
To start with I know it's difficult to really make a SW movie; you gotta appeal to those who's been loving it since the 80s for episodes 4 to 6, and connect with episodes 1 to 3 which I believe has great effects and lightsaber choreography despite the stereotypical story. I don't really want to comment anything about the story anymore; not sure about others but I'm really sick of seeing the Death Star for the 6th time. The special effects + costumes felt carried over from episode 6 and 7 in a way that it maintained an 80s sci-fi look; but seriously nowadays we've seen too many neat tech effects that I find it kind of lame. I'm not really sure if I'm watching this movie in ultra high definition with dolby sound effects or from one of those old TV with antennas on top.
Story-wise, given that the previous movies weren't that great in this aspect either, but they all have good effects for their time and some eye-popping scenes. For example, people loved Darth Maul in episode one with the dual light sabres and wowed when Yoda start dueling the Duku in Clone Wars and takes on Sidious in Revenge of the Sith. In Rogue One there were two scenes that could've been done very well or lengthened: one being stranded on a planet getting blasted by a death star and the other being Vader's killing spree. Both were almost non-existent and could've been done much better.
What really got me to write this review is that movie ratings have really become untrustworthy nowadays. Too many credits (and Oscars) were given just because movies explore some minority issue(s) or have too large of a fan following, or very artsy and glamorous but with the most important factor ignored: and that is ENTERTAINMENT VALUE. Beyond all else critics and viewers really asking themselves, "am I enjoying this movie?", if not, don't give it kudos in the wrong area. I admit that great effects may add to this entertainment factor, but it really depends. For example I can't imagine the superhero and Sci-Fi movies being good without good effects, but then again you got old movies like Shawshank Redemption remaining at the top of the list despite whatever new comes out. I'm really shouting out to the industry and the movie makers to "keep giving us quality movies", and from that stand point, I can say that Rogue One isn't one of them.