Based on 626 votes and 217 reviews.
Pretty sloppy effort, a lot of puffery. Very forgettable, thankfully.
Good plot. The conflict between the Empire and the Rebels. Just like the older days when Star Wars came out in 1977.
A lot of people are having conflicting views. But honestly it's a nice prequel, it has a lot of memorable star wars characters and moments, it's an interesting plot and you can emotionally attached to the characters. Simply enough its a great movie in my eyes.
I always wanted to know how they build the Death Start and how the princess got the plans. Who was the designer. The movie brought back good memories from the first movie. Nostalgic good memories when I discovery a galaxy far far away.
Darth Vader was against the evil good vilian. The space battled was epic.
Without Skywalker, Solo, etc, this movie has no resemblance to Star Wars. Seemed like 2+ hours of boredom in the dark.
The best thing to happen to Star Wars since the lightsaber. This movie proves out that Star Wars stories without a Skywalker in the center work very well. A well rounded cast with a dark plot line makes this the film to see this holiday season.
Overall the movie was okay-ish, it had the expected aesthetic of the Star Wars universe. But I wasn't able to connect to the characters - the most interesting actor was the droid (irony alert!). The story was formulaic and rather dull. But what bothered me the most was the complete absence of female characters. Aside from Jyn, there are no female rebels, First Order fighters, Deathstar personnel, .. it's like the XX chromosome combo has been totally expunged. Seriously odd, and rather annoying to this dyed-in-the-wool Star Wars fan.
Agreed, even Schwarzenegger would have improved this flick and that's sad.
Doubtful there will ever be a Rogue2. Luckily they had no real actors so their costs should be very small.