This is a spoiler free review for all of you that haven't seen the movie yet. Far be it for little old me to fucking ruin it all for you. That would make me a penis and who wants to be a penis? Not this guy. What I'll do instead is state that Rogue One is a high octane, gritty, and ridiculously entertaining movie. Director Gareth Edwards has helmed the best popcorn movie this year because this movie is unmercifully exciting. It's an actual war film with sacrifices for the greater good and casualties. There are literally bodies scattered on the beach. It's not in the vein of Saving Private Ryan but it easily could have been.
What else helps this movie along is the really nice diversity of the cast. Yes the lead in the movie is a white girl, Felicity Jones playing Jyn Orso, but her surrounding cast does NOT include a white man. Her right hand man, Cassian Andor is played by Diego Luna and the other two key actors in this movie are Asian men. The incredible Donnie Yen plays the blind Chirrut Imwe and Wen Jiang plays Baze Malbus, Chirrut's protector and best friend. And let's not forget the Oscar Award winning Forrest Whitaker who plays the righteous rebel Saw Gerrera. This has to be the most diverse cast ever seen in a Star Wars film.
M biggest beef with this film is not just the lack of any real emotional punch but the horrible score by Oscar winner (still don't know how that shit happened) Michael Giacchino was not just disappointing but upsetting. The music supplied for this film was basically background noise and for the first non John Williams score for a Star Wars film it should have blown the roof off the theater. That didn't happen at all. Now in fairness to him he only had between three and four weeks to score the film due to reshoots and scheduling but for a $200 million dollar budgeted film the music should have been better. That being said I give Rogue One a solid three buckets of Killer Korn out of five. Enjoy this offering and I'll see you at the theater.
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