A New Hope part 1

Rating: 5/10 (15 December 2016)

Forget calling this film Rouge One this film should be dubbed A New Hope part 1. This film more or less is actually the appetiser for the main course directed by George Lucas. As mentioned in the opening crawl of the 1977 version Rebel spies have stolen plans of the Death Star and the film leads directly to the start of the original trilogy.
What I liked about the film was the return of the Death Star, Tarkin who looks his normal self despite Peter Cushing now deceased and of course the return of the one and only Darth Vader.
However the film was not without it's disappointment as there was no opening crawl. The film begins with the infamous A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away before it simply cuts to the action. The biggest annoyance however was that the Death Star was operational the whole time in the film. It was not supposed to be able to fire with it's laser beam until A New Hope. I bet George Lucas would be angry and if I was him I would sue Gareth Edwards for every penny he had as that is a huge plot hole in my opinion.
Despite that the film was not all bad as we finally see how the plans were stolen and we finally get a true prequel to A New Hope. I only gave it 5 stars as it had it's good and bad points and was not as great as the main Star Wars films.