![]() ![]() Rogue One knows its place: It's a placeholder - a way for the Disney organization not merely to monetize but to annualize a franchise that used to have a three-year gap between movies. This prequel to the very first Star Wars tells the thrilling story of how a ragtag band of freedom fighters - including a former soldier-turned-prisoner (Felicity Jones), a Rebel Alliance insider (Diego Luna), an intensely spiritual believer in the Force (Donnie Yen), and a sentient robot (voiced by Alan Tudyk) - worked together. And it squanders them while not only not being distinctive, but also while seeming to go out of its way not to be distinctive. ![]() Or maybe that they should more closely resemble computer games.Įither way though, the film doesn't make much use of the talents of a whole raft of heavyweights (besides Whitaker, there's Mads Mikkelsen, Jimmy Smits, Ben Daniels), and an appealing lightweight or two - notably Diego Luna as a handler for (and eventual disciple of) Jyn. While Star Wars: The Force Awakens was one of the most anticipated blockbusters in recent memory, Rogue One had the somewhat tricky task of being both a prequel to a beloved movie and setting up a spinoff series. With all the aerial dogfights, armored combat vehicles, grenades, flame-throwers and snipers, Rogue One feels like a film for those who think that most Star Wars movies are insufficiently like World War II flicks. Someone (I think it was Forest Whitaker's seemingly rebuilt-from-spare-parts rebel fanatic) tells Jyn "we have a long road ahead of us," and by about the sixth shoot-em-up on a different moon, it's clear he's not kidding. So many planets, rebel hideouts, obscure moons and imperial bases get name-checked in the first few minutes that I figured I must've forgotten to do a homework assignment. The place to fight, it should be noted, is all over the intergalactic map. ![]() "The time to fight is now," she keens, to a notably unreceptive crowd. ![]()
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