Finished watching Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, directed by Gareth Edwards and staring Ben Mendelsohn, Felicity Jones, Forest Whitaker, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed and Alan Tudyk. The film opens up several years prior to the completion of the Death Star as the Imperial director of weapons research Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn)has come to the farm of Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelson) to force him to return to the empire and complete the Death Star. Meanwhile Galen's daughter Jyn (Felicity Jones) flees the farm and is later found and raised by the rebel Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker). Years later Jyn is in an imperial prison being prepared for transfer to a camp. In another part of the galaxy rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) revives information of a defected pilot Bodhi Rook (Riz Ahmed) has information about the Death Star form its lead designer Galen Erso. The one set back to this is that the pilot is with Saw Gerrera which leads to Cassian and is partner droid K-2SO (Alan Tudyk) being sent by the Rebel Alliance to brake Jynout of jail during a transfer to the imperial camp in hope to use her as a way to get a meeting with Saw and find the pilot and the information he has. Overall this was an amazing film as it builds upon the story of the original Star Wars film by explaining one of the biggest plot holes of that film and also show how the events of the original was set into motion which should please any Star Wars fan. While the film should also please any casual audience member as he film does stand on its own as a great Si Fi action adventure film with elements of a war film as well. There is a great amount of character interaction and enough development for each character to have a very affective and impactful part in the ending sequence of the film. There is a surprising amount of comedy that gives the film some levity to a story that is quite dark and serious in tone. The CGI is great as the different planet locations and space battles are brought to life incredibly well and are truly spectacular. If anything feels out of place is the CGI faces of classic characters takes a second to get used to. 9.5/10.
Friday 23 December 2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Film Review
Finished watching Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, directed by Gareth Edwards and staring Ben Mendelsohn, Felicity Jones, Forest Whitaker, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed and Alan Tudyk. The film opens up several years prior to the completion of the Death Star as the Imperial director of weapons research Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn)has come to the farm of Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelson) to force him to return to the empire and complete the Death Star. Meanwhile Galen's daughter Jyn (Felicity Jones) flees the farm and is later found and raised by the rebel Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker). Years later Jyn is in an imperial prison being prepared for transfer to a camp. In another part of the galaxy rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) revives information of a defected pilot Bodhi Rook (Riz Ahmed) has information about the Death Star form its lead designer Galen Erso. The one set back to this is that the pilot is with Saw Gerrera which leads to Cassian and is partner droid K-2SO (Alan Tudyk) being sent by the Rebel Alliance to brake Jynout of jail during a transfer to the imperial camp in hope to use her as a way to get a meeting with Saw and find the pilot and the information he has. Overall this was an amazing film as it builds upon the story of the original Star Wars film by explaining one of the biggest plot holes of that film and also show how the events of the original was set into motion which should please any Star Wars fan. While the film should also please any casual audience member as he film does stand on its own as a great Si Fi action adventure film with elements of a war film as well. There is a great amount of character interaction and enough development for each character to have a very affective and impactful part in the ending sequence of the film. There is a surprising amount of comedy that gives the film some levity to a story that is quite dark and serious in tone. The CGI is great as the different planet locations and space battles are brought to life incredibly well and are truly spectacular. If anything feels out of place is the CGI faces of classic characters takes a second to get used to. 9.5/10.
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