Maybe I am not cut for sci-fi, but I seriously did not understand Rogue One

Rating: 4/10 (19 December 2016)

I don't know what others have to say about Rogue One, but this is what I have to say. I am in the multiplex, Rogue One is showing, and I am writing this review. This is what the film is doing to me. It cannot even hold my attention.
Maybe I am not cut for sci-fi. But James Cameron's Avatar, too, was sci-fi. It had me engaged. And I watch Avatar again and again on DVD. Why isn't Rogue One holding my attention? In January 2016, I saw another Star Wars film. I don't even remember its name. It is understood that Star Wars, despite the Lucas name attached to it, doesn't really appeal to me.
Rogue One seems to me like a politically correct film aimed to please everyone in this galaxy. The female lead is played by a British. The male lead by a Mexican. There is an African-American actor, a British-Pakistani actor, and two Chinese actors. The father of the female lead is played by a Swedish actor. I could see some characters wearing a garment that resembled the burqa. Then there is a reprogrammed droid with a sense of humour and huge machine quadrupeds.
There is the done to death father-daughter angle. And dialogues that try to be inspiring but sound straight out of a self-help book. The special effects and the 3D effects are well done, but they are nothing that we haven't seen before. And the names of the planets in the galaxy - Jedha is the only one I can remember, though I am still watching the film - do not help either. Why couldn't they think of easier names for the planets? Something like Mars and Jupiter. And - honestly, I do not know how else to put this? - is there even a story in Rogue One? I am sorry, just a big name and big franchise alone do not make an engaging film. Rogue One is strictly for the fans of Star Wars.