Rogue One (2016)

I'll make this short: "Rogue One" suffers of what I could define as the "Two Towers" syndrome... Meaning, the unfortunate position of a middle piece. Not to be confused with the second episode in a trilogy, or the k < n part in an "n"logy. A second episode doesn't generally imply a finality in the third. A middle piece is a filling between an existing beginning and an existing ending. That's what we have here. This never works. And still "Rogue One", really manages to bring "A New Hope" in the "Star Wars" line, compared to the force awakening of last year ... Even if we don't have much of a story, set somewhere immediately before Episode IV as an excuse to bring on screen back the Death Star together with some short Vader scenes (= good way to cash in $), the result still seemed closer to the original trilogy feeling. At least the details and the way the characters were built felt like that... Even so, it looked a bit too much driven behind as a side story in one single piece (oops, big spoiler), just not to hijack the public of next year's Episode VIII...

Rating: 3 out of 5