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Gareth EdwardsCinematography:
Greig FraserComposer:
Michael GiacchinoCast:
Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn, Diego Luna, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, James Earl Jones, Jimmy Smits, Warwick Davis, Donnie Yen (more)VOD (3)
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From Lucasfilm comes an epic adventure - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. In a period of great confilct, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction. (Disney / Buena Vista)
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The Star Wars universe has never seemed so empty, two-dimensional, and pointless. A film that fills two sentences from the epilogue of A New Hope and fulfills its role mechanically, without enthusiasm, without exciting characters, but with lots of wooden sentences and abbreviations. The film contains disposable heroes - heroes without a past and a future. And if it sounds like a good starting point for a war film on paper, it creates an incoherent hermaphrodite on the screen, which gives me almost physical feelings of discomfort when I watch it. Like 2016, the incredibly disgusting and unbelievable digital resurrection of the two characters in the original trilogy. Episode VII showed that old clichés can have a new life. Rogue One is the corpse that contains the best and most chilling scene in the last five minutes. Until then, you are watching the clashes of opaque and poorly drawn characters in space, which, despite jumping from place to place, resembles someone's cramped living room. A disappointment of galactic proportions, there is no doubt about that. P. S. Bonus points for reviving Forest Whitaker from Battlefield: Earth: This is truly a feat for lovers of recession. Edit: Given this year's Christmas competition, I have to add a third star. It simply does not deserves the same treatment as Assassin's Creed and Passengers.
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Star Wars for me has always been a saga based on adventure, laughable naivety, likable heroes, and fairly one-dimensional but ultimately fun characters. Rogue One has none of that. Nothing against trying to make a darker story, but the attempts to turn the rebels into sort of bastards who aren't afraid to slaughter innocents because "the ends justify the means" are more distracting than interesting, as are all the other attempts at a grittier atmosphere and the efforts to make this sci-fi flick into a war movie. Although it could work, it would just have to have more interesting characters that we know something about. Not two Asians who are teamed up with the heroes because they happened to meet in the city and became best buddies during a scene that probably ended up in the editing room. No one in the bunch is the least bit interesting, failing to evoke any emotion and just being there, either pretending to be a blind halfling or a fat lover of big guns, and that's where all ends. Nobody is funny, nobody is cool, nobody is scary, they're just there, flying from planet to planet and you're supposed to root for them because the director said so. And the more the minutes tick by, the more tedious and annoying the whole thing gets. Fortunately, Rogue One looks great and pulls a truly epic space carnage out of its sleeve in its last half hour, so in the end I left the cinema not satisfied, but certainly not angry – although I did feel more and more embarrassed with each successive reference to Episodes 4 to 6. A moderately entertaining film and a pretty big step off for the entire saga. I hope it's the last one.
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I should state at the outset that I am more of a Star Wars detractor than a fan. I suffered through Episode VII in the cinema and gave Rogue One a chance mainly because of the new cast and Donnie Yen, who apart from two small action set pieces didn't show much. Fortunately the new film is not as infantile, trivial and tired as the previous ones. The weird creatures are kept to a minimum, none of the actors pissed me off, and the action was watchable without rolling my eyes, yet it's nothing exciting or imaginative that would make me fall on my ass. Thumbs up for a great performance by Forest Whitaker and for Lord Vader's two-minute solo, which had some oomph, but once was enough. 65%.
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It took a long 33 years, but we finally got it. After Episode 6, the best film in the Star Wars universe. It doesn't feel contrived, it doesn't tell the story through bridges for morons, and it treats the main and episodic characters in a brash and bleak way, like in a real war. The beginning is perhaps too slow (my only complaint), but otherwise it's pure fan joy. I'd love to have a beer with Gareth Edwards, not only is he one of the few to understand the poetry of the original Japanese Godzilla films, but his rendition of Star Wars doesn't look like a cheesy coloring book either. Give him Star Trek, too!
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Another Star Wars movie. And a great one at that! Rogue One has a bold and wonderful cast with some lesser known faces, especially in the case of the main characters, who are not chosen Jedis, but just regular mortals whose fate is to fulfil a single, but extremely important task in the saga. A fast-paced story packed with all kinds of fantastically epical action, taking place in beautiful, creatively designed locations (the huge ATATs at the Maldivian “atoll” are a childhood dream come true). Lovely episodes featuring beloved Star Wars characters, the plot of which is well linked to the first trilogy. Finally, an intriguing and powerful dramatic tangle of a large number of characters, each having their own importance and whose actions define the pillars of the first trilogy. You can see that this was written by people who not only love Star Wars, but also know how to work dramatically with characters and stories beyond the boundaries of fantasy. And they do not steal from the mythology of the Star Wars universe, but complement and develop it. Bravo!
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