May another farce be with you

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2017)

Okay, so Mrs. Shullivan insisted we go to the movies (since we were entering a New Year) and she had heard only great reviews from friends how fantastic this new chapter was in the Star War series. So we went all out and upgraded to the 3D film version with reclining theatre seats and waited for the film to start.
Let me say that I did not mind the original 1977 film episode IV A New Hope, and even the subsequent two (2) films, episode V (1980) and episode V1 (1983) were passable theatre versions. But when the Star Wars film empire commenced with their Christmas mass merchandising effort and a continuous new epic (or spew yech) film every few years my own interest in the Star Wars series waned.
Being the good sport that I am I agreed to get to the theatre early so we would not disturb anyone else and after sitting through 20 minutes of TV quality commercials, the movie started. The gist of the film is about a young five (5) year old Jyn Erso being instructed by her parents that she had to proceed in to her survival mode as the bad guys showed up to whisk daddy away so that he could complete building the ultimate laser weapon to destroy anything that the bad guys wanted to destroy. What followed over the next 15 years or so is the young five (5) year old Jyn learns to survive on her own and as a young female decides to find her father the scientist and save the world from weapons of mass destruction ....once again.
If you like CGI and starships blasting each other out of the galaxy for the majority of the film then this chapter in the Star Wars saga will be right up your proverbial alley. As for me and Mrs. Shullivan we can sum it up in the following words: All hype and CGI and boring as hell. I give this chapter a 3 out of 10 rating and only for their marketing effort. I guess my personal review of Rogue One will illicit a lot of "not agreed" responses as the 184,601 reviewers have rated this film with a overly generous 8.1 rating. By the way....the 3D version did absolutely nothing to enhance my movie experience, save your money and see the non 3D version if you must.