Lacks both depth and humour

Rating: 4/10 (29 December 2016)

I have always enjoyed the Star Wars series, especially 4, 5, 6 and was really looking forward to see what Disney could do..
Unfortunately, I found a film that severely lacked what George Lucas et al created...
I honestly got the feeling that the producers simply looked back through the previous films and made a note about what they thought were the best sequences, rearranged into a pseudo script, hired some new faces and started rolling film....
So many of the scenes were simply re-cuts from the originals, OK I understand that the story line had to find some similarities but this was just a dreadful remix....
The original Star Wars characters all had depth, they had soul and above all they had humour. Again Rogue One lacked in all of these domains. The characters were flat, it was impossible to feel their ambitions and they severely lacked humour which was Omni-present in the originals...
The graphics were excellent, the film was of very high production standards but it felt unstitched, it felt amateur, it sorely lacked the pace and excitement that the originals developed.
Hans Solo was a hero, Luke Skywalker grew from a boy into a man, C3P0 and R2D2 had soul, there was action and tension between the principal characters, where was all of this in Rogue One.... nowhere to be found....
It just felt like a slightly above average B series... I do not understand the great reviews, unless if course they are in comparison to the 1,2 and 3 episodes...
I really wanted to enjoy this film but simply came away feeling very unimpressed, it felt more like a marketing adventure rather than a serious attempt to make a good film