Where are all the women?

Rating: 3/10 (27 August 2017)

Gareth Edwards must have thought that by having Felicity Jones in the lead role, a couple of two-line actresses in robes and a few mothers running about his film would be female enough. By keeping his character arcs on an all-time shallow, and avoiding all banter between these bands of rebels, he has systematically removed all chance of any emotion for the viewer as one by one they fight, die, and form alliances. While Star Wars has always been for the boys, it's ridiculous to presume that there would be zero female rebel volunteers, female imperial scientists, or anyone of note here when half the population or more is female. And why Jyn would choose to hug the biggest idiot man of them all at the end is amazing to me when they basically spent most of the film despising each other. Three stars for Felicity Jones and Riz Ahmed, who act their socks off. But thumbs down for the blatant waste of an opportunity to add women to the cast, even in the background. Seems pretty sexist. Ya boo for not utilizing the wondrous Forest Whitaker. And yuck to the CGI characters. I was bored out of my mind in general, and was glad when the end credits rolled. What a shame.