A film I don't plan to see twice

Rating: 5/10 (18 December 2016)

Although I am not a huge Star Wars fan I did come to enjoy "the force awakens" but this movie came to me as a disappointment. The main issue with the film was that there was no character build up and several flaws that really annoyed me throughout the film. Director Krennic, played by Ben Mendelsohn, was a serious letdown to what I was expecting from the main antagonist of this star wars film. He does literally nothing. He doesn't use any powers, he doesn't shoot any weapon, he literally acts like a dick and orders people to do things. The most important, or memorable part, was when he confronts Darth Vader, which brings me to my second point. Gareth Edwards, director of film, had the chance to bring back the best Star wars villain of all time (Darth Vader) yet we only see him for a few minutes. And let me tell you that if you love star wars for its cool light sabers and forces from hands don't watch this film. there is only one, yes one light saber appearance in the film, and that is at the very end of the film. Now with character build up we are introduced to several new characters, which is quite cool, but don't get to overly attached. Spoiler: they literally spend the boring hour of the movie introducing these characters to you and then at the very end needlessly kill every single one off. They even kill off the hilarious robot! The sad thing about this is that we fans don't really get the chance to get connected to the characters like the characters from the other films because they spend so little time to build on a load of characters, and than a few scenes later, they just kill them off expecting a emotional response from viewers, which did not happen. Now looking at the bright side the visuals and space war scene were impressive and thrilling, but one thing did bring a new aspect to the star wars film. The rebels were not squeaky clean unlike the previous films. This can be seen by the decisions made by Cassian Andor, who in my opinion was a complete dickhead. The decisions he was making throughout the film were stupid and made me kind of dislike his character. Im not going to lie, when he fell down the shaft and hit his head on some beams I was quite happy, although the fall did not kill him.
Brief summary:
+ Visuals were satisfying
+ last hour was quite entertaining and thrilling
+ the good side was more enjoyable than the childish good side from "the force awakens"
-character build up(Includes all unnecessary deaths of each character)
-how little the dark side did
-how little of Darth Vader is shown
-the CGI of some characters -Major flaws (mainly how a small ship maneuvered a destroyer into another destroyer)