With a strong resemblance to prior Star Wars movies it is good entertainment.

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2017)

My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library.
"Star Wars" and I go way back, all the way to the ancient time of 1977 when the first one came out, later re-named "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" after three prequels were made. But that 1977 classic, the one that made Harrison Ford famous as Han Solo, will forever be the definitive "Star Wars" movie.
So, how does this one compare? Very well. They pretty much stuck to the original Star Wars sensibilities and even have short cameos with Darth Vader and an aging Princess Leia. The story is rather simple, the resistance is trying to get plans for the Empire's planet-destroying death star, and that requires travel to a number of different planets in the galaxy. The movie relies on frequent conflicts to generate action and cool sound effects.
Felicity Jones stars as Jyn Erso, we first see her as a young girl hiding out as the Empire kidnaps her scientist father, he is needed to make the death star workable. When she grows up she leads the resistance effort to preserve the galaxy, far far away.
Good 'popcorn' entertainment and Jones is very good in her role, as well as a number of other good, experienced actors. But none of them are Harrison Ford.
As a final comment, our knowledge of science and space have come so far in 40 years. We now know that a galaxy typically has hundreds of billions of stars, likely billions of planets, and just to cross a medium sized galaxy takes light over 100,000 years. In reality human travel across much of a galaxy is impossible, the fictional Empire could not destroy the galaxy even if they had the most powerful weapon. Imagination and fantasy in movie-making are nowhere near reality, but that's OK, as long as we can reflect on that and smile about it.