Nearly 40 years after Star Wars there finally is the prequel

Rating: 9/10 (17 December 2016)

Although the movie is more of a war drama than a space adventure, it manages to give you that Star Wars feeling that the prequel trilogy failed to do. Sure those prequels shared the well known characters but it lacked everything that is Star Wars. Rogue One, surprisingly, managed to pull you in the Star Wars universe with a completely different story and characters.
I'm not going to give anything away but the people who hated the Force Awakens, for being a copy of the original trilogy, will enjoy what this movie has to offer. But also the people that loved the Force Awakens will enjoy this one because this movie connects to the original trilogy as much as TFA did. With the right cameo's, the right nods but especially because of the balance between 'the old Star Wars' and the new imagination of the creative teams behind this movie.
To me Rogue One has overcome everything that the prequel trilogy wanted to offer. And in a way gives us more answers than the prequel trilogy did. Who would have thought that Disney would rescue Star Wars? But with TFA and now Rogue One they seem to understand this universe better than it's creator George Lucas.
When Disney anounced they were going to release a Star Wars story each year, I was very sceptic. But after Rogue One I must admit that I can hardly wait for the Han Solo movie. The Star Wars Universe has just expanded in a very very good way.