Still not sci-fi, and still a great movie

Rating: 9/10 (1 January 2017)

I hardly ever write reviews for movies with more than 200 reviewers, and this one has more than 800 at the moment. But since I have two major points to make, and since so many around, including some experienced reviewers, (not to say professional ones) complain about the predictability of the plot - hey that's a prequel, it has to be predictable, because we all already know how it ends. The room for surprising plot twists is almost non existent. The movie must aim for something different and it does. It carries further the exploration of good and evil, sometimes a bit superficially some times with surprising depth. But that's what comics is all about, especially a sci-fi comics - it explores the nature of people and the choices they make when finding themselves in hypothetical fictional situations, that test their moral core. The good ones do it with more depth than one may realize, as the story itself often seems simplistic. This one has some extra depth to it as it also explores the nature of Hope, what it does to people and how it can drive them with surprising and unexpected force.
All this is done very cleverly, using some real great characters, we don't get to see how they all evolved into the people we see on screen, but all those we do see on screen for more than a few seconds are fully developed characters, and most of the actors do them justice. The leading three: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna and Alan Tudyk are super, best of the three is Tudyk who does incredible job as the opinionated sarcastic robot, an impossible role which he performs with surprising credibility.
All this doesn't really matter you're all going to rip this review to shreds because I dare say that this is not really a science fiction, since science is not the issue here, and doesn't drive the plot. The issue here is the nature of power, the relations power has to being good or evil and as I also pointed out - the power generated by Hope. If you want to discuss this with me, my IMDb account is open to massages, I promise to answer whoever will write. I already know you probably won't write, just hit the not useful button. Have it your way, I'll keep writing what I think.