Better than The Force Awakens

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2017)

Last year's disaster of a Star Wars movie (TFA) left me angry and disappointed. I thought I would never like any of the new films. Rogue One is not great but I generally enjoyed watching it.
I cannot help but drawing a parallel between both. Rogue One is done with a different twist: it is more like a good war drama, rather than being a western-style sci-fi picture. What I find annoying about it is the choice of Diego Luna for the main character. While he is a fine actor, I am not sure who decided that he could be a convincing bad ass member of the Rebellion. He was equally as ridiculous as Adam Driver playing Kylo Ren in TFA. The rest of the cast did a good job. Felicity Jones was much better than the actress (or is she a female soccer goalkeeper?) playing Rey in the previously released movie.
The other parts that could have been done better: the dialog (and monologues for that matter). Too much explaining of what is happening and why, instead of showing it. This is a movie after all, not a radio play. And where was The Force? They kept talking about it but it was not given a chance to show itself...The story was quite boring as well but I guess it is not easy to right a good Star Wars script.