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It may not have the joyous spark of adventure as the classic films, but it's still a thrilling glimpse into the street life of a galaxy far, far away.Early trailers for 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' promised a work in the vein of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai,' ' The Magnificent Seven' and ' The Dirty Dozen'-impossible mission movies that weren't afraid to kill off the vivid characters they created. And there's a climactic sequence that may be one of the best moments in any of the Star Wars films.įaithfully brushing up against the Star Wars saga, Rogue One nonetheless takes us places in the universe we've never seen before. The ending battle sees director Gareth Edwards diving headfirst into the Star Wars toy box, pitting lumbering walkers and swooping X-wings against each other in no-expense-spared combat. Speaking of villains, Rogue One repeats a mistake of last year's The Force Awakens, leaning a little too hard on CGI to bring one of the main villains to life.įortunately, Rogue One avoids the tacked-on ending of The Force Awakens, and it's in the final third that the new spinoff bursts into life like a star destroyer exploding into flaming carnage. The shadow of the Dark Side looms over the film with appearances from familiar villains, but Rogue One is in many ways a look at the banality of evil, of the workaday compromise and low-level corruption that keeps the cogs of galactic tyranny grinding. He's a petty bureaucrat, an ambitious opportunist blindly serving men who take advantage of his shortsighted ego to show what evil really is.

Like the heroes, Krennic is really a minor character in the Star Wars saga, a footnote in galactic history. On the opposite side of the Force is the sneering Director Krennic, played with pantomime relish by Ben Mendelsohn. The film sets up a range of interesting characters - Whitaker's extremist rebel, for example, or Ahmed's guilt-ridden Imperial pilot - but doesn't fully commit to its intriguing ideas.ĭiego Luna, in particular, fails to convince as an icy assassin, but that could also be because his soulful eyes are just soooo dreamy.Īnd as interesting as the individual characters are, they don't spark the kind of chemistry that we saw between Rey, Finn and Poe and that carried us through the far sillier The Force Awakens. That's a compliment to his hilarious performance, but it also shows how the rest of the talented cast is left shortchanged by the script. Despite being a concoction of motion capture and CGI, Alan Tudyk's droid K-2SO is one of the most lifelike of the characters.

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