Met My Expectations And More!

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 2016)

Again, I'm not showing favoritism because I'm a huge "Star Wars" fan. This is my honest and unbiased review and feelings of this side story of the "Star Wars" franchise. This film was awesome! It starts off a couple of weeks before Episode IV and leads up to the opening scene of it. It's so perfect and the ending of this film had chills going through my body! Along with Episode III, this prequel more than made up for my dissatisfaction of Episode l and Episode ll. Even if you're not really a "Star Wars" fan you will enjoy this film. My father-in-law knows nothing about "Star Wars" and he saw it and he even enjoyed it. He was all in to this film. Gareth Edwards did a magnificent job in keeping this film close to the original trilogy and bringing that feeling of the original "Star Wars" trilogy back to the big screen.
Felicity Jones, playing the part of Jyn Erso, and Forest Whitaker, playing the part of Saw Gerrera, brought a wonderful addition to the "Star Wars" franchise. As a fan of his work I just wish I could have seen more of Forest Whitaker in this film. It would have been nice if he had a larger role. "Rogue One" was action packed and it had enough drama to balance it all out and the special effects were breath taking. Of course the story-line and plot were simple and direct but hugely effective because it simply had to sum up the beginning of Episode IV. At first I didn't know how the idea of having a side "Star Wars" story being plugged into the main story- line would be but the way George Lucas and Gareth Edwards laid it out, it was pure genius! I even had to give applause at the end of this film.
I knew this film was going to be something great even before I pre bought my ticket. I didn't even have to look on this website to see what kind of ratings it got and I didn't even want to. I bought my ticket early on a Friday for a Tuesday the 27th night showing not knowing the fate of Carrie Fisher, low and behold she died the day I was set to see "Rogue One" so when I saw the end of the last scene of this film chills ran through my body. "Rogue One" is a definite must see and this film isn't over hyped, it's as good as everyone says it is. I highly recommend seeing this film rather you're a fan or not.