Thank God for Rogue One, because the original is officially off the tracks!

Rating: 4/10 (22 December 2017)

I'll try to keep this spoiler lite. Let's start things off with a positive note: Benicio Del Toro was the best character in this movie. But he was a minor off shoot character, so that should tell you a bit about the rest of them.
Simply put, Rogue One, has raised the bar of what a Star Wars movie going forward should live up to. This movie is "prequel bad". You know pod races and not great acting kind of bad.
You want to like it, because new generation of heroes, like Rey, Fin and Poe are interesting characters. But suddenly there are new powers of the Force show up in the movie that seem like convenient plot elements to get writers out of a corner they painted themselves into. (Watch out for a couple of spoilers here) What new Force powers you might ask...oh like two Jedi's being able to talk to each other across millions of miles of space as if they are in the same room. Or being able to project yourself across a galaxy to fight a light saber duel. And the oddest one, being dead one second floating among debris in space and then flying like Superman back to the safety of your ship. Huh? (end spoilers)
I told my kids that no matter what the reviews are, when a Star Wars movie comes out I have to go check it out to see for myself. I just can't help myself. However after this movie, I don't think I'll worry about seeing the next installment, if there is one. And I won't be adding this to the collection any time soon on iTunes when it gets released either.