Rogue One review

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2016)

Went with the family to watch after Christmas. We all found the movie to be a great tie into New Hope by defining the lines spoken by Leia that the deathstar plans "came at a great price or great cost". Now we know what that great cost was. When you step back and take a macro view of Rogue One you can see how it provides a great backstory that leads into NH. Looking closer at RO, you can see the various characters and elements that contributed to the great sacrifice made by everyone, the power struggle and interactions between the Empire leaders of the deathstar, and even feel the pressure from Vader, who BTW we were treated to watching him let loose on the rebels even for just a couple minutes, really showed some of his skills. The destructive power of the deathstar was demonstrated quite nicely and it's final blast "cleaned up" the remaining characters. Yes it was a little sad to see all of them die, but gave closure to all of them since none appeared in NH. The fight scenes were awesome and the strategy used by fish-guy to ram a ship into a star destroyer and push that ship into another star destroyer to crash down onto the planet gate was AWESOME to see.