Pretty good movie

Rating: 6/10 (16 December 2016)

I just saw Rogue One and I thought it was good. However I have some mixed feelings about it. Now is it as bad as the Prequels no of course not. Is it as good as the original trilogy or The Force Awakens. No Way.
But now I'm going to say what I liked about it and what I didn't like about it. The best thing about this movie was the visual effects. This is perhaps the best looking Star Wars Movie ever. The visual effects were great, Gareth Edwards did an amazing job. What I really liked is how they showed the scale for example the small ships in comparison with the gigantic planets. The Death Star looked never so intimidating. I liked that they explained some plot holes in the original Star Wars. Like the explanation for the death stars weak point. It didn't feel forced and it played in with the story. The Action was amazing which brings me to my next point. It is a Star Wars movie that felt like real war we have never seen that before. What I think this movie did better than the Force Awakens is the humor. In The Force Awakens the humor often times stopped the movie and it didn't fit very well. This movie nailed it pretty well it didn't interrupt the story because they didn't make as many jokes and the jokes were actually funny. There weren't as many stupid callbacks to the original movies like in The Force Awakens. They kept it nice and simple. It first kind of bugged me whenever a character died in this movie. I even called it The Game of Thrones version of Star Wars. But the more I think about it the more I like it. They were fighting for the Plans and they even sacrificed themselves so they could succeed.
Now to the negatives The characters weren't as interesting and whenever someone died I didn't care for them. The ones I liked were Mads Mikkelsen and Donnie Yen. Mads Mikkelsen had an interesting conflict but he died very early in this movie and Donnie Yen was more or less just entertaining to watch but i couldn't really tell what his character was. Jyn Ersos character was boring. The dialog was sometimes very cheesy for example the reused lines like "I have a bad feeling about this". The Darth Vader scene was cool but it didn't fit at all. They just needed to show a Darth Vader scene so they just forced it in at the end. There were some random scenes in the movie like the tentacle scene at the beginning which took me out of the movie and didn't serve a purpose at all. The romance between Jyn and that other guy was forced. The Beach planet looked cool but it got really stale after a while. My last point is directing. Gareth Edwards is an awesome action director. We saw that in Godzilla and we also saw that in this movie. But he is not so good with characters and actors. I would love to see some other people directing a Star Wars movie. Here are some of my suggestions: Christopher Nolan, Alex Garland, Ridley Scott, Denis Villeneuve, Matthew Vaughn, Matt Reeves and maybe Duncan Jones. I think those people would nail the action and the characters. Anyway although my review may seem like I hate this movie I enjoyed it. I wasn't disappointed but my expectations weren't exceeded. I think if you like Star Wars you won't be disappointed. I'm looking forward to episode 8 and the Han Solo Spin-Off
I would give this movie a 7/10