![]() It’s an act so cold-blooded that I wasn’t sure I had understood the scene correctly at first. Early on, we see Cassian murder a rebel informant rather than see him captured by the Empire. That struggle between hope and necessity is also personified in Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor, a rebel officer who’s done some terrible things in the name of galactic freedom. Played by Felicity Jones, Jyn is a hardened cynic, a failed idealist whose struggle with hopelessness defines the film’s thematic core. …a disillusioned rebel fighter whose father is the reluctant scientist behind the design of the Death Star. It tells the story of how the Rebel Alliance got their hands on the Death Star plans, and it tells that story as a war film, with multiple battles fought on multiple fronts by multiple characters using widely varying methods. So Rogue One was a very welcome surprise. I don’t think it’s the worst Star Wars movie (*cough* Phantom Menace*cough*), but it’s still pretty low on the list. Because I’ll be honest… I enjoyed Force Awakens well enough, but ultimately found it to be a pretty lackluster film. But it’s also a good way to accentuate the dichotomy between the soulless corporate product I feared it would be, and the damn good adventure movie I actually got. Which, yes, is a pretty cynical way to describe a film I liked so much. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first of the Walt Disney Corporation’s stand-alone Star Wars films, and the second volley in their attempt to turn Star Wars into an annual movie franchise. A damn sight better than The Force Awakens and, I would argue, maybe the first real spiritual sequel to Star Wars. ![]() This is high praise, I know, and not the sort of thing I say lightly. I hesitate to make bold statements like this so soon after leaving the theater, but I think I may have a new favorite Star Wars movie.
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