Best Surprise Ever

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2019)

Imagine a tiny film made by unknowns, starring mostly unknowns that becomes one of top grossing films in history?
Darth Vader, James Earl Jones reprising his voice role, chilling, Mustafar thrilling, Vader in his tank, the lava lake reservoir Citadel, the place where Obi Wan left him hacked and burned, but now the source of his spiritual strength, read Darth Vader comics by Charles Soule, issues 20-25, watch Star Wars Rebels and Clone War cartoons to learn about Mustafar and its link to the eternal, and lastly a mostly disregarded comic by an unpopular author called Darth Vader annual 2 that came out last year which is the prequel to this prequel it's the story of Darth Vader, director krennic, Governor Tarkin and Geonosis and how that all connects because an entire new world of Star Wars comes with Rogue One, that's how good this film is.
Felicity Jones is so good in this role the rest of the cast also terrific, the male lead from Mexico his accent is so thick that it made some of his lines unintelligible that's really my only flaw in the film and that we don't get more Vader and Tarkin.
The scenes on Jeddha, don't miss the Jedi mountains lying alk over Jeddha, the destructive power of the Death Star, that travels in hyperspace, the sacrifices on Scariff, terrible tragedy in Jyn's family all make this a true tearjerker and it's also an action adventure Thriller the Space Battles the battle with the planets force field on Scariff, all of this is just A+ material and it's much better than the last Jedi, The Last Jedi and even Solo, neither are as good as this film, this film becomes Maybe the second best Star Wars movie after Empire Strikes Back although I love the prequels I think they get a lot of bad press just because people who don't know anything about Star Wars shoot off their mouths remember the prequels are really George Lucas's Opus where he lays out the real Canon of Star Wars.
The final 20 minutes of the movie when you realize things aren't going well and the final scene with Darth Vader might be one of the best scenes in Star Wars history the fear the awesome power of the force used by Darth Vader against those troops and the clever use of actual footage of Carrie Fisher at the very end, it's a real tear-jerker and now we know exactly what the crawl in episode 4 is all about when you read the crawl in a New Hope they're describing this film you always took it for granted that somebody showed up with the plans for the Death Star, Rogue One a Star Wars Story finally tells us exactly how we got those plans and what terrible cost. Don't miss this movie it's a real gem