not overtly unwatchable like ep 7

Rating: 7/10 (25 December 2016)

I wasn't going to see this in theatre, but caved as I've seen them all. It has been a full year since JJ stuck it in our bums, and still 99% of the population pretends ep 7 was a "good" movie, so I was expecting that within minutes of Rogue One starting, I would start looking around shaking my head and sighing at how overtly stupid and ripoff things were progressing. Instead....
That moment never came.... It wasn't a bad movie!!! The guy from Bloodline was in it, and Donnie Yen and nothing super dumb happened. I was honestly most surprised that they actually stepped back from the hype and slowed things down, giving the human mind time to really absorb the locations and people, which actually made it more immersive. Normally big movies are like a video game cut scene: simply swirling colours and noise with no flow... This film only did that a few times, and even then the editing was slightly closer in pace to the era of ep 4 film making.
So basically i feel like this film had the confidence to not just rush everything to get to the action. This film i actually wouldn't mind seeing a few times, unlike ep 7. What is the plan here??? Am i to think the spin offs will be OK, and the main films just brain-dead stupidity????