Watchable

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2017)

Well, I re-watched Rouge One and I must confess - I guess I am too old now for the Star Wars franchise. What most annoys me is the fact that the Stormtroopers most of the time just produce hot air by their shooting, their armor is good for nothing (even with a stick you can knock them out - well, I know even the little teddybears in Episode VI did it with stone axes) and the inconsistencies in the movie(s) are countless - a planet-sized shield breaks down because two star destroyers hit it... Also, they still use discs for storing data :D And a little group of ground troops of the rebels engage a whole imperial garrison - I mean common, at least an outflanking maneuver should be included in the training of the storm troops if they already cut down the target exercises and spend money on fake armor.
Some more examples!?
1. If the building of the Death Star is such a secret operation why use human pilots for transporting crystals and other stuff. Aren't there droids in the universe (or maybe just spaceships with an autopilot-system!?)
2. Why the stormtroopers transported the crystals with the tank through the (hostile, rebel-infested) city instead of using air transportation as vertical takeoff is standard there should be enough space for that kind of maneuver or you just make SPACE.
3. Why killing the engineers!? If the Deathstar is flawed I would use that team to find the weakness. And really 6 engineers!? I guess you would need for whatever system you are planning and engineering for a project big as the Deathstar dozens if not hundreds of engineers. Even the toilet/waste system for the Deathstar would be a great challenge to manage.
4. Last but not least why using Stormtroopers at all and not just Droids (ofc not those dumb ones of Episode I to III)!? I mean K-2SO is a droid specialized on tactical analyzing and he alone killed over a dozen stormtroopers - how many a killer droid programmed and equipped just for one purpose: for killing would have finished off!? Hundreds!?
I just listed those as a few examples because I could go on and on and on - the mistakes and logic-bending issues are countless (no counter-espionage, the rebels can move and do whatever they want, the Imperial Army is always surprised, even bases with thousands of rebels are possible etc. pp.)
Star Wars imo is highly overrated - if I compare this with classics like the first Alien movie or Blade Runner this is nothing more than storytelling on a level of John Wayne movies (his mediocre, mass output movies). Yes, the first 2 Star Wars movies were epic (the 3rd to a certain degree, I always hated the Ewoks-part) and I re- watched them countless times, but all the other movies and series were just disappointments. And as I watched the first trilogy I was of very young age and the (for that times) epic visuals may have clouded my judgment a little. Even Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe!) or the first movies/show of Battlestar Galactica are Noble Prize worthy masterpieces compared (storyline, construction of the respective "worlds").
Don't get me wrong on a technical level Rouge One is superb, but the story and the "world" itself are at most mediocre and with every additional movie it shows more and more that there is not much substance to it - just compare it with the Star Trek universe (I am no Trekkie) and you see easy which one is a more coherent and interesting universe. Rouge One is better than The Force Awakens but still nowhere near to be a masterpiece.
Final words: if my country would be ever threatened by such incompetent invaders like the imperial forces I would take my pocket knife and maybe a stick too and start a revolution and by tea time I would have defeated them - alone ;)