Thoroughly Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (4 October 2017)

I don't know why some many people thought this was a good movie. The writing is terrible. There is no character development. They don't even have so much as a personality, each character is just the bones of an overused trope. I couldn't tell if the actors were good because their interactions with one another were so unnatural. The main character's only defining characteristic was her relationship to her father, who had no personality either. Because all the characters were nobody, when they started killing them off it wasn't emotionally impactful at all.
Rogue One had no worldbuilding to it at all, which is one of the things that made Star Wars so appealing. At best there's the introduction of a couple of new-looking droids and aliens in the background.
Visually, it didn't look great. Of course the effects were fine, but many scenes had a muddy look as if large portions of them were blurred to look good in 3D.
Rogue One made me decide I don't want to spend money on another Star Wars movie or merchandise because it's so clear Disney is just going to start churning out low quality movies year after year, trying to milk as much money as it can out of the Star Wars franchise before it becomes a joke.