Great eye candy, brain-dead plot

Rating: 3/10 (31 August 2017)

I want to make something clear: I don't expect Star Wars movies to be Citizen Kane in terms of emotional scope or intellectual payload, but this was so poorly written that I honestly can't remember some parts of it. The writers do an absolutely miserable job of making you want to like the characters - the "good guy" opens the film in possibly the worst way for a "hero" character to be introduced, scoundrel stereotype or not - and the main female character exhibits literally zero character growth throughout the entire story outside of "I had it rough as a kid". Finally, I hope you're ready for some bad one-liners, and I especially hope you're ready to hear them come from the last character who should ever be delivering one-liners.
That said, the eye-candy is gorgeous and it was fantastic fun to watch the final battle, but if this is Rogue Squadron's origin story I'm genuinely afraid to see what comes next.