Okay, since I reviewed The
Force Awakens and recently watched all eight movies in one sitting, I
figured a review of Rogue One is also
in order. I was pretty pumped in the
lead-up to it, despite the PC pandering that was obviously in high gear. The idea of exploring stories apart from the
Skywalker saga was very enticing. Plus,
when the backdrop is precursory events merely mentioned in A New Hope, it was hard to resist getting a little excited. With Gareth Edwards, who had recently given
us a moderately entertaining and fairly mythos-honoring monster feature in
2014’s Godzilla, Lucasfilm again was
not going with the time-tested big-name director. Plus, there was a wildly diverse cast. Would it pay off?
