She joins a band of misfits that includes a cold-blooded Rebel assassin named Cassian Andor ( Diego Luna) a blind but still lethal warrior-priest named Chirrut Îmwe ( Donnie Yen) Chirrut's stoic, cranky but loyal best friend Baze Malbus ( Jiang Wen), a legendary marksman former Imperial pilot Bodhi Rook ( Riz Ahmed), who claims he defected to the Rebels after realizing the Death Star's power and Clone Wars veteran Saw Gerrera ( Forest Whitaker), a revolutionary whose cyborg legs and assisted breathing make him a light-side-of-the-Force answer to baddies like Darth Vader and General Grievous. But somehow these aren't enough to sink the movie, which manages to succeed as both super-nerdy fan service and the first entry since the 1977 original that will satisfy people who have never seen a "Star Wars" film.įelicity Jones stars as Jyn Erso, the lone child of Imperial scientist Galen (Mads Mikkelsen) who invented the Death Star. ( Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy's script even retro-engineers an answer to the question of why the Galactic Empire would build a super-weapon that could be vaporized with a single well-placed shot.) "Rogue One" is a letdown in other areas, and there are creative decisions so ill-conceived they take you out of the story. But it also bridges the fairy-tale despair of the prequels to the rah-rah idealism of the original trilogy, spackling decades-old logic holes as it goes along. It culminates in a thunderous final act that weaves together the most impressive space battle in the series with a prolonged ground assault on an Imperial fortress in which casualties have both physical and emotional weight (which is something " Star Wars" was never big on). This film about a band of misfits stealing the plans to the first Death Star is that kind of work.
Early trailers for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" promised a work in the vein of "The Bridge on the River Kwai," " The Magnificent Seven" and " The Dirty Dozen"-impossible mission movies that weren't afraid to kill off the vivid characters they created.
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