On the 16th of December 2016 I saw the latest movie on the Star Wars saga. The story takes place in between episode 3 and episode 4, It makes the second Star Wars movie since Disney got there hands on the rights. Due to the success of Episode 7 they decided to do another prequel movie, like the other prequel movies were any good. Hmmm, Hmmm George Lucas. Now anyway enough with all that lets get on to the movie. So to go on some negatives of the movie first it does not have the classic opening where it tells you the events that happened before the movie starts and only traces of John Williams's classic score is heard throughout the movie. The score for the movie is written by Michael Giacchino who is notable for his work on the JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot and this years Doctor Strange.
Those are only two risky parts of the movie that I thought should not really happened, but the score wasn't so bad. Besides its not such a bad composer to replace Mr. Williams with. Anyone on to the movie. The story is about collecting the plans to the super weapon known to everyone as the Death Star. The cast was quite good with Felicity Jones as the new big heroine Jyn Erso, Diego Luna as Cassian Andor a rebel fighter, Alan Tudyk as K-2S0 a Imperial droid that was reprogrammed, Donnie Yen as Chirrut Îmwe an old Jedi who is blind, Wen Jiang as Baze Malbas the carer of Chirrut, Riz Ahmed as Bodhi Rook a imperial pilot who swaps sides and many more.
The story focuses on all these characters coming together to get the Death Star plans from Scarif, where the plans are stored. The Death Star is built by Jyn's father Galen Erso who is portrayed by Mad Mikkelsen. But they are stopped by Director Orson Krennic portrayed by Ben Mendelsohn who is protecting the Death Star until it is placed in the hands of Grand Moff Tarkin who is in the film. Now before I continue with the film lets go on to another negative, the actor in a new hope the great Hammer Horror actor Peter Cushing is now dead and in the film he is portrayed by Guy Henry. I know what your think that's obviously going to happen but they decided to digitalise Guy's face to make him look like Peter Cushing. Know digitalised characters have been in used in the Terminator 4 and 5 (like they were successful) and Fast and Furious 7. The only problem I have with this is that CGI has grown so much over the years that, well this certain effect makes it a bit obvious.
Anyway back to the film, there are many other characters that return like Jimmy Smits Bail Organa, Genevieve O' Reilly's Mom Mothma and lets not forget James Earl Jones returns as the big bad Darth Vader. I liked this as it made the film connect more with the Star Wars universe instead of having mentions of the character. Lets not forget, C-3PO and R2-D2 come back in the film. Also Princess Leia but with a digitalised face like Tarkin.
Overall, I enjoyed the film with the introduction to the new characters and the return to some of the old characters as well. I cannot wait for more Anthology films and hope to see what the Han Solo movie will be like in 2018. That's enough from me. I though Gareth Edwards did a great job on doing a full feature length movie based on a sentence that was scene in Episode 4. I would give Rogue One a 8/10.
