Confusing 5th entry in the Star War franchise

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2016)

My review of Star Wars: Rogue One: A Rogue One Star Wars Story (2016): (Star Wars) Rogue One (2016) Pretty good. Some quibbles.
Makes Windoo is recast but now he's not even a Jedi; they don't acknowledge it. He's just a black guy with a gun. Pretty weird.
The Dark Vader character from the third film is once again shoehorned in but still no classic characters (Kwy-Gonne, Ja Ja)
Excessive and hard to justify use of the n-word (I counted at least eight instances, all from Asian characters. Odd.)
A lot of very awkward dialogue, examples below:
Gin: "So what are we, some kind of... rogue one?"
Mon Mothra: "Gentlemen and ladies and space aliens of the alliance, we find ourselves at war in the stars."
Admiral Veronica: "You mean, some kind of star wars?" Admiral Wilno: "The star wars will not end until we have a new hope - it's the only way we can stop these wars in the stars." Gin: "What is this, some kind of... star war?"
Cincinattus: "The rebellion will be crushed!" Gin: "TELL... MARTHA..." Cincinattus: "... WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME? WHY DID YOU SAY IT?"
Dark Vadar: "The rebellion will need some kind of a new hope to stop us when the empire strikes back! This will be the end of the return of the jedi with our attack of the clones - the revenge of the sith! I am a phantom menace!"
In a pathetic bid to save money, they studio, instead of casting a tall man to inhabit the Dark Vader costume, cast three young children sitting on each others' shoulders. This leads to a lot of jarring cuts as Vador is about to clearly fall over, only to be suddenly standing up in the next shot, with totally different lighting and in some cases the wrong colour armour.
The time travel subplot was very unnecessary and clearly an attempt to ride the coattails of the popularity of Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
The incest scene was simultaneously uncomfortable and unrealistic, and I don't think droids work that way.
They once again recycle the plot of The Force Awakening by having the First Order (confusingly, here, called 'the umpire' make a new Starkiller Base, only this time it's called 'The Death Start.')
Star Destroyers once again do NOT (I can't believe they made this boob again) do NOT destroy any stars.
Picard is barely in it (blink and you'll miss it cameo)
Too many references aimed at sci-fi fans. 'Laser' guns? Really? Like that's realistic. Also dialogue such as,
Gin: "If I take that mask off, will you die?" Dark Vader: "It would be extremely painful." Gin: "No, TARS, it's necessary." Dark Vadir: "What are we, some kind of suicide squad?"
Aaron Sorkin was NOT needed to 'punch up' the remaining dialogue, and again, it seems forced:
Gin: "The Empires are working on some kind of planet-killer." Caruso: "A planet-killer?" Gin: "A planet-killer." Caruso: "Walk with me." Gin: "They're working on some kind of planet-killer." Caruso: "A planet-killer." Gin: "A planet-killer." Caruso: *turns to camera* "Conservatives are misguided and foolish, and should be smugly mocked." *slowly nods as music swells.*
The confusingly-named Thai Fighters are still just regular fighters.
Storm Troopers don't fight in storms (but do have those ridiculous, unrealistic 'laser guns')
Peter Cushing might as well be dead, he phones his performance in so much.
There's no sound in space.
Finally, the movie ends with a blatant sequel hook. Clearly, the next film will show our heroes blowing up this 'Death Start'. Main characters will probably be the heavily-teased Bail Organa, Red Leader, and Gold Leader.
All in all, a standard Hollywood cash-grab. Watch an original movie, like The Mummy (2017) or the first movie in the quadrilogy, The Phantom Menaces (1999).