Rogue One Should Be Renamed Star One (Rating out of Ten)

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2016)

I realize that movie makers are people too, and I don't wish to be negative in a cold way. All is fair in art criticism, especially when you review the majors. "They have their reward," goes a famous saying about people who benefit in the hear and now.
It's pretty obvious that there is some kind of agenda in Hollywood, same as what happened with the reboot of Doctor Who in the UK, to make things more ominous and to make sci-fi more like a horror movie. At least this one wasn't too overtly creepy, but more like a idiotic CGI action film. There was a lot of violence in this film. It wasn't graphic violence, more like non stop roughing up of one character against another, and tons of death by laser blasts.
This film has absolutely nothing in common with the first several star wars except the high budget graphics and some of the space aesthetics. It seems a cheap trick that probably still amuses some of the mindless writers to exchange "dark" with talent. A darker Star Wars? More like an abusive waste of time.
I really hope the Star Wars franchise don't think they can get away with putting out more trash like this. It seems to try be everything the earlier movies were not -- like some kind of gritty Third World set violent string of cheap explosions instead of character and good-over- evil plot.
I would not doubt if one day these positive ratings were shown to be shills, kind of a Wikileaks of the movies exposing them as false. I think a lot of people are going to feel insulted by this movie.