Maybe I’ve seen too many Dirty Dozen-inspired productions but this one isn’t among the strongest. The weakest link is the war story, which is irregularly paced and at times a little too obvious. Using those goals as a barometer of his success, I’d give the filmmaker 2.5 out of 3. If The Force Awakens was a loving but ultimately disappointing recycling of the original Star Wars’ greatest hits, Rogue One is a more solid and better realized vision because, rather than trying to bend and twist Lucas’ universe to fit his interpretation, director Gareth Edwards ( Godzilla) allows his narrative to take place “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”Įdwards came to this project with a three-fold mission: make a war movie with Star Wars trappings, pay tribute to Lucas’ hexalogy, and figure out how to neatly dovetail this story into A New Hope. And, although Rogue One, the first so-called “ Star Wars anthology” movie (a story not focused on the Skywalker family), lacks an opening crawl and the rousing musical fanfare at the beginning, it still uses “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” For that reason, it doesn’t take long for us to feel like we have been transported into the milieu created by George Lucas 39 years ago. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” Perhaps those words don’t mean as much as they did a couple of decades ago but they still have the capacity to raise goose bumps.
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