Reviews

Star Wars has been through one heck of an ride over the decades. It has gone from underground nerdom to global phenomenon. From merchandise cashgrab to labor of love and back to merchandise cashgrab, to social confusion.

The original trilogy will always stay treasured and loved. The prequel's upset the more diehard fans but opened Star Wars to the masses in ways no-one would have anticipated, and the prequels are suddenly loved even by the diehard fans that as previously stated had issues with them, because of the nosedive the new films did (episode 7 and 8.)

I wasn't alone in feeling a sense of death of a franchise we all loved.

Then Rogue One was announced.

Somber wait.

It released, and we went to see it.

It revived my love for Star Wars all over again. What an absolute gem of a movie, made with love and it shows.

A epic tale, set right before A New Hope.

If you haven't seen it, maybe because of fear that it would be yet another Star Wars movie that hammers the proverbial nail of sadness into the coffin? Don't fret, don't be afraid. The movie is amazing. Cast, acting, score, atmosphere, they nail it all, it feels "Star Wars" right to the bone.

I went into this movie trying my best to stay objective and take it for what it was. And I enjoyed it as a sci fi action movie, it wasn't bad. No where near as bad as some of the more fanatical fans seem to think it was here.

Acting was good, screenplay was good, pacing was good. Story was actually not that bad neither. Unless someone wanted to try and challenge the original in terms of plot, there's not many options that works, this kinda did work.

If you ignore the more crazy fans that like to bash on anything that's not on par with their own opinions, you'll enjoy this film.

People don't seem to understand that rating 5 out of 10 is "watchable but not for me." ratings. Yet there's individuals out there that give perfectly alright movies 2 and 3 stars just because they can't give objective opinions even if their lives depended on it.

But I digress.

The movie was a excellent action movie, a great sci fi movie and a questionable Predator movie. So how should we base the rating then?

7/10 action movie. 7/10 sci fi movie. 5/10 Predator movie.

Final verdict = 6/10

Not sure why they thought making this film was a good idea tbh.

They try to be Pixar/Disney but fall short in every single aspect.

It's somewhat rare that I sit and count the minutes until a movie is over.

This movie would have been much better if it had been released a few years ago. Right now the whole thing is a bit tainted by the obvious "#metoo" movement.

This movie is based on the amazing book by Stephen King. And if you remove the ridiculous ending the movie stays pretty true to the original source.

The movie looks great, good pacing, acting is average.

5/5

It was really good.

Dr Strange gets flak but that's only from idiots with half a brain.

Watch it, it's great.