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Instead, Disney Plus is likely to become the domain of more out-there ideas for Star Wars fiction, and The Mandalorian's success shows that being on a streaming service will have no negative impact on the amount of attention it can get. With Solo flopping at the box office, it feels unlikely that we'll ever see another risky proposition in this vein from Star Wars in the cinema. It's a thrilling finale to an inconsistent movie. The sequence of an X-Wing coming out of hyperspace into the fleet is one of the best in a beautiful-looking movie: For all the unfair criticism The Last Jedi gets, its overly long space sequences of big, slow ships getting blown up by the First Order don't compare to the zippy dogfights and capital ship collisions going on above Scarif.Ī great Star Wars film needs a good space battle, then, and Rogue One brings it.

And the Battle of Scarif that caps off Rogue One – taking place on both the planet's surface and in orbit above – is a terrific set piece, featuring some of the most thrilling action ever seen in the movies. If you grew up obsessing over the details of the Star Wars universe, you've probably got a lot of fondness for the spaceships. The wider ensemble cast is collectively just likeable enough in Rogue One for you to be invested in their theft of the Death Star plans, but you don't have one great protagonist to carry this film. When you consider that K2S0 will be joining him, though – the reprogrammed Imperial droid played sarcastically by Alan Tudyk that steals the movie – that premise does start to sound more interesting. As it stands, it's hard to see how he's compelling enough to be the lead of his own Disney Plus series. Why show that sequence to begin with, then? If you took that scene out, Andor would risk being a bit of a blank slate. This is presumably intended to show us he's a man who'll do drastic things to get the job done and keep the Rebel Alliance safe, but he doesn't really do anything this dark again for the rest of the movie, save for briefly considering pulling the sniper trigger on Jyn's father.

When we meet Diego Luna's Cassian Andor at the start of the film, the Rebel officer murders his own contact because he lacks the ability to escape the surrounding stormtroopers. You don't feel like you truly get to know Jyn in Rogue One, or what she's about.Īnd that lack of attention to characterization extends to the movie's co-lead, too. Her eventual commitment to the Rebel cause comes out of nowhere, barring her father's death, which is at least partly caused by a Rebel Alliance bombing raid.

She's someone we're told has a criminal past, who hasn't seen her father since he was taken by the Empire, but the film doesn't sell you on the sense of a journey. Considering Felicity Jones' Jyn Erso leads the assault on the Empire at the end of the film, she's otherwise a pretty unassertive presence in Rogue One.