![]() ![]() ![]() If the film missteps even a little bit (and it’s probably better described as unnecessary steps), it’s the number of callbacks and touchstones to the original films it does manage to squeeze in. Some pundits have wondered if the public will fully embrace a "Star Wars" movie largely without Jedi Knights and main characters from the Skywalker lineage, and while that remains an open question in a commercial sense, "Rogue One" works best the freer it is from "Star Wars" iconography. light fantasy-based conflicts of the series, the world of "Rogue One" is far more complicated, showing us a more realized version of a universe under the thumb of an evil dictatorship and the moral compromises soldiers living and fighting in a war zones might have to make. All Rights Reserved.)Įdwards's vision is also different in tone - more mature and dare we say more 'gritty' than any "Star Wars" film before it, including last year’s highly successful though inarguably familiar " The Force Awakens." Less antiseptic than the very broad good vs. (Image credit: Ph: Jonathan Olley.© 2016 Lucasfilm Ltd. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.Stormtroopers.
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