Rogue One (2016)

This pre-Star Wars flick wasn't needed. The space saga would be better off without essentially with no prequel. Get to the point already. Did not happen. It goes to join the others in "honorable mentions" for one of 2016's worst films. Nothing to see here, move along.

Don't get me wrong, the action sequences- especially a D-day styled battle scene are entertaining. But throughout the entire marketing parade, it felt as if I was reliving the past four years with the "Hunger Games" . And that's exactly what viewers got: a ripoff of that. Ugh.

The director Gareth Edwards, doesn't really add any originality like the actual Star Wars films. (COPY and PASTE!) I wonder what "Lionsgate" thinks of those uncanny similarities?

Rogue Ones' acting however, was monotone and mumbo-jumbo, to say the least. With a major of its cast boating hard-to-understand European dialects, it was nevertheless very tiresome. Huh? What? Here we go again.

Why on gods green earth would someone waste their time developing something before an actual film saga manages to kickass? This film didn't really kickass, because it's "been there done that" kind of feeling. And most of the time the film was more mopey and serious than entertaining.

Though the highly successful Episode 7 got the money it bargained for, Rogue One manages to highhandedly screw up the whole dynamic of this space saga and morph it into shit. It's so bad, you're better off watching Mel Brooks Spaceballs. 

Rate: D-

Director: Gareth Edwards

Starring: Felicity Jones

Runtime: 2 hours and 13 minutes

Rated PG-13