The mortal ones.

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2016)

First of all, I would tell you that the film has exceeded my expectations by far, but then I would lie: I had none. After last years Episode VII, I wondered if the time would come where the Star Wars Universe would be a little bit more mature, with the spirit of a Episode V. Well, they did. It is by far grittier that you would expect from Disney and the Star Wars cannon. While having some weak spots as a very flicked looking plot, the rather 2-dimentional characters and dialogues, this film succeed where the others failed long time ago: The political aspect. We have it all, Wagner references in the score, brutal images, long-standing scenes of the destruction that represent the whole grim, aesthetic debate about its inner beauty, actual conflict zones drowned into a futuristic scenery,death presented as a stoic element without the whole religious aspect of the force. Overall, a very good movie for Star Wars standards.