Rogue One - A Star Wars Story

Even directed by Gareth Edwards, we have a lot of George Lucas here.  The movie can be divided into two halves, the Raiders of the Lost Ark first half (vaguely North African desert and bazaars, searching for people for a dangerous mission) and the New Hope second half (the boarding of the enemy spaceship, the X wing fighters, and so forth).

Credit goes for SOME originality ( whereas in the Force Awakens there was precious little) but again, we're falling into James Bond territory, telling the same story over and over.   Ride the horse until it drops.

I suppose some time in a Galaxy far, far away that we'll have a new telling of the story like The Dark Knight, that breathes some new light here.  Until then, just note the 6 major characters in Star Wars (1977) and expect from them.

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