The best of the saga so far

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2016)

Take The Twelve Magnificents and The Guns of Navarone. Mix it and wrap it up with all the Star Wars paraphernalia. Pour true emotions of parents/daughter love and devotion and the core of what any rebellion is: the personal sacrifice aimed to achieve a greater good for everyone. The movie holds a superb narrative pulse (and I say it because at my age I easily catch a wink otherwise) and what it is found by many as 45 minutes where nothing happens I find it not only necessary to reinforce the action and climax of the movie but a interesting change in the current action movie pattern where directors tend to put the audience in a unnecessary continuous emotional roller-coaster. It actually allows to savor the second half of the movie. The X-wing Tie Fighter warfare is simply fantastic. And the way this episode seamlessly merges with episode IV is a masterful continuity engineering. I'm truly sold about Rogue One. It is the result of respectfully treating four decades of thinking and devotion to the Star Wars saga. For me it was worth every cent I paid to see it at the Theatre. Two thumbs up :-D Cheers from Madrid Spain