Rogue One is An Adult Film; But Then it Isn't.

Rating: 6/10 (16 December 2016)

Please excuse my brevity, or lack of form; the most recent of The Star Wars Saga has left me too depressed to care overmuch about protocol. Not to be confused with Protocol Droids.
After seeing Star Wars, Rogue One the night before its Friday open, my daughter asked me what I thought, and I answered that it was a 5.5 out of 10. She said that she didn't like it either, because almost every 'light-side' character died.
Although Rogue One obviously had adopted a rather George R.R. Martin-esque flavor, this was not my problem. More, what bothered me is that while Mr. Martin does occasionally kill fan favorite characters, and thereby keeps readers on their toes. He kills them off after developing the heroes sufficiently. Otherwise; who cares? Personally, I grieved (but only a little), that I would never have a chance to feel their loss. That mild dysthmia was further exacerbated by a cheese-ridden assault (being kind) of monotonous SW: A New Hope throwbacks. Most visible of which were CGI enabled performances of Governor Tarkin and Princess Leia. The latter of which was on par with a low-budget video game animation; Tarkin was a bit better.
Lesser evils were voice-impersonations of the rebel pilots who attacked the Death Star in 'A New Hope', including that death-curdling scream en route to crashing into oblivion. Other SW IV reenactments--another boarding of a Corvette Class Ship by Storm Troopers and Darth Vader, replete with 'force strangling'. I mean, really? It was, in this guys opinion, all a patronizing suck-up, and had me strongly considering going Trekkie. Are we adults, willing to admit that people die in (an albeit futuristic) war? Or kids, making us susceptible to mollification by paper-thin throwbacks to the 1977 movie that started it all? I may know the lines by heart, but I do have an independent brain, which is telling me that ambiance doesn't equal interesting! See it at your own risk, Star Wars Fans.