An average story, despite its Star Wars background

Rating: 6/10 (28 January 2018)

After being separated from her parents since she was little, Jyn Erso ends up collaborating with the Alliance in a desperate attempt to gain the original plans for the Death Star. Together with a group of rogue rebels, she will venture on an Imperial occupied planet, against all odds, in order to bring hope to the universe regarding the infamous Death Star.
It's a movie which tells, as its title suggests, a story related to the Star Wars universe, told from a different perspective, which ultimately affects the events from the franchise. Although it brings a sad and apparently thrilling premise, the story fails to impress in any way. It is good, it has consistency, but a bit too predictable and a bit too simple to provide much satisfaction. The characters are on par with the story, not bringing something which might raise the bar. They are quite underdeveloped, some even useless, almost without a clear direction, doing what they do just because they were supposed to do it, not because they actually felt that they should. Or at least that's how it is seen from my point of view. You simply don't get to care about their fate, maybe with one or two exceptions, thus making the finale as dull as it was predictable. To be honest, Cassian's robot was the only one which made itself pleasant and even funny, thus becoming the most cared for character of the movie. And this is, if you ask me, a bad ball for it.
The effects are very good, making it a visual pleasure, but this is nothing unexpected when talking about this type of movies. The sad part is that the visuals are the only very good part of this movie which ultimately fails to create something great. Although it had quite a good idea, the actors weren't able to bring something extraordinary to their "ordinary" characters, which, to be honest, were the disappointment of the movie. It felt lame, something made just to be there, not managing to transmit emotion to the viewer, which simply awaits the finale, instead of enjoying the story. Yes, I am disappointed by this one, not because I had big expectations regarding it, but because it failed to be a good movie, not to say that it had the whole Star Wars universe at its disposal.