Perfect addition, gets better and better on every watch!

The full original trilogy, The Prequel Trilogy, Solo and The Last Jedi are all audio described, so why isn’t this one? Please explain and/or fix.

Incredibly written, great storyline and some fantastic scenes

For a Star Wars movie it linked so well with a new hope it’s so good sad and just amazing best Star Wars

There is the original trilogy and this. Skip EVERYTHING else.

All the characters that were not in a new hope died and there were far too many new characters it felt like it isn’t Star Wars

The best star wars spin off yet

Fantastic.

I absolutely love this film, the director captured the essence of the old Star Wars films from the 70’s and 80’s.

Great story and characters.... shame the other new Star Wars films can’t quite get it as good as this.

All-in-all it's just a great presentation of a better prequel! It makes up for the mistakes they called films when they made prequels that wrecked the Star Wars world in the early 2000s. Disney have pulled Star Wars back!!!

I remember watching this the first time it came out in the movies and I loved it I went back in again the next day and again following after that. It is the best Star Wars story I have watched and I still love it.

Didn’t think I’d enjoy it but really enjoyed it with an awesome ending definitely recommend 👍

SOO good my favourite scene was when the star destroyer crashes into another star destroyer

A brilliant movie and this movie took me by surprise as I originally didn’t have high hopes for it. Highly recommended and my second best star wars movie after Empire Strikes Back. Well done Disney.

Feels like Star Wars movie. The characters are great and story is amazing

THE. BEST. FILM. EVER. a must watch !!!

PLOT SPOILERS THROUGHOUT

After avoiding reviews and spoilers for this film, I went to see 'Rogue One' a few weeks after it had been released, fearing a repeat of last year's Star Wars: A New Hope Redux.

I was thoroughly disappointed, one could not help but hear promises of a far more adult and gritty installment in the Star Wars universe, this was not delivered.

I found the majority of the characters to be two-dimensional with no attempt made to flesh out their personalities or make the audience invest in them emotionally. This really stood out towards the end of the film when some main cast members died, and the sudden switch to slow-motion and the change in tone of music showed me that this was meant to be a tragic moment, but I had no attachment to the characters.

Disney should note that "Having a large gun" or "Being Blind and repeating a clunky mantra regarding the force" do not constitute personalities.

Far too many characters are introduced with far too little time being spent on them to justify their inclusion. Krennic, (one of the few characters who's name I remember) did far too little during the film to justify the time spent dwelling on his character, and could have died far earlier on in the film as he only served as a tedious and easily defeated obstacle towards the end of the film. The time that Jyn and he spend 'monologuing' with each other could have been put to better use. Come to think of it, his role could have been filled by a more established star wars villain such as Grand Moff Tarkin who has real pedigree as a Star Wars Villain and would not have required such a forced and uncompelling introduction.

(Peter Cushing has sadly not fared well since his death, and his rigid and expressionless CGI corpse suffered badly from the effects of the 'Uncanny-Valley').

Forest Whitaker was sadly wasted with his character being killed after only a few short minutes of screen time, and could have been completely omitted from the film without his characters absence being noted, and perhaps improving the pacing of the film. What little exposition there was for his character, (that he was too extreme for the rebels) did little to help.

It seems that there was a great more to this film that was either planned but never shot, or was cut to achieve a shorter running time and a lower age rating.

Again, like The Force Awakens, this film took every opportunity to remind you that "weve seen the OT too" and had too many jarring and unnecessary references to the original films, including a pointless and frankly stupid scene involving two characters from A New Hope who happen to spout the same dialogue as they did in a cantina some 40 years ago.

The best (or most promising moments) were;

The insurgency in Jedha, this was gritty, and showed a vastly outnumbered and technologicaly inferior resistance group fighting a dirty and familiar war against an occupying force. This part of the film had great potential, and would have served well as a means of 'fleshing out' some of the main cast.

The batle at the relay station where the rebels storm an imperial facility to steal the Death Star plans. This could have been vastly improved however, if they had not insisted on cutting away from a gritty, boots-on-the-ground firefight, to scenes of a friendly robot sorting through an overly compicated Imperial filing cabinet.

Finally, for me the best scene of the film was...

Darth Vader thoroughly F'ing the S**t out of a squad of Rebel soldiers with all the skill and savagery we have come to expect. This scene was brutal to the point where it seemed to be taken from a different, but much better film. As awesome as this scene was, it could have only ever been what it is, an epic finale.

Perhaps a load of deleted scenes, or a Directors Cut will be released that can fix this film. I hope that Disney didn't wrest control of the Star Wars universe from George Lucas' well meaning but terribly misguided hands just to allow this...

SPOILERS WATCH FILM FIRST

I have seen a lot of bad reviews of characters having little backstory (except saw) and no character in them BUT to get the best understanding please read the book Star Wars Catalyst a rouge one novel, it will give you some of the answers to your questions.

Overall I liked the film, it shows how there is evil on both sides by exposing the rebellions dark side, the battles had a battlefront like style and during the space battle did anyone see the Ghost in Star Wars rebels and chopper too?

This was a honest review

not worth the watch.

Drags on. Absolute waste of my time.

Can't see anything wrong with it😀😀😀😀

Very good acting and very neatly set out in the galaxy. Intriguing and won't disappoint- grips you to watch it to the very end! Overall we rate 4/5 for acting, 5/5 for CGI and 4.5/5 for the plot and development. Overall we rate this film 4.5/5 as it is very enjoyable and created very well. We would put the age rating at 12A( for mild violence and scenes that may be frightening for younger children, but not too bad) .

glade i only rented for 99p thats all that its worth

Thought the one before was better.

The best Star Wars film since The Empire Strikes Back. Fabulous cast, superb performances. The only Star Wars film to compete with the first two.

Totally insipid . Fell asleep three times trying to watch it to completion and failed each time ....

So amazing!!

I love ALL OF THE STarwars films

I bought this movie from here but the latest version of iTunes 12.6.1.25 no longer plays the movies you download. Apple are giving me no support to help resolve this problem.

Was it only me or did it seem like this film lacked in pure Star Wars magic, aside from the awesome Darth Vader end scene. like the technology, it's almost as if the technology in rogue one went back a few thousand years to the very start of the old republic compared to the previous episode 1,2,3 movies, it's almost like the ships are old fashioned and not sleek enough and the galactic empire have a big grudge against advanced technology, like there stupid ground tank you see on Jedha which has tracks, cmon guys it's Star Wars, tanks are meant to hover, and there was no sign of any speeders or hover vehicles at all, even the planets didn't seem alien or star wars enough compared to the last ones, such a disappointment

I really like how the film stays politically correct even in a Star Wars film! It's made all lefties, I'm sure very pleased. As a white guy, If I could have made It anti white completely to please everyone else I would have! 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼 thank you Disney

I am not a Star Wars fan but I like them, BUT this is an absolute waste of time and money. Fell asleep all the way through, good efforts.

As a fanatic of Episodes 4-6 I loved this film. Superb casting and great acting.

I'm a massive SW fan - and was very disappointed with this, actually found it boring. Too much planet hopping in the first 15 minutes - rather than establishing character, they flit from scene to scene and by the time the action starts you don't really know who is who. This flaw ruined the entire movie, as you literally don't grow closer enough to the characters to care what happens to them.

On the plus side, the last 5 minutes of the film (the final Vader scene) are excellent. But the earlier Vader scenes are awful.

Ultimately, if you know Star Wars, you know this is an entirely unnecessary movie (we all know what happens), but I'm sure they will sell lots of toys.

Rubbish

Boring. Worst Star Wars film

Star Wars is the best movie franchise

I pre ordered this film expecting to get it on the release date. Instead i found out that my order had somehow been cancelled even though I paid for the film.

A mess of a film. No coherent narrative, no plot, no characters. One for fans only. Waste of time, even though it starts well. Deteriorates rapidly.

The brutal difference in volume between dialogue and sound effects made this a complete waste of money! We gave up after 30 minutes.

Star Wars back on top form.

Awesome, the best Star Wars movie in a long time

A brilliant movie from start to finish. The ending in particular is well thought out and simply superb.

Drags and drags on

A true classic and a real compliment to the Star Wars saga. Really impressive are the subtle references to the original film including uniforms, backdrops on ships and the technology used back in the first Star Wars movie. Love it!!!!

Never in my life have I watched a film in the cinema and pre ordered it the second I walked back through the door but that's what I did when I watched Rouge One.. I'm a huge Star Wars fan and I can honestly say this sits right up there with the originals.. such a great film worth every penny and I've watched it so many times and it never fails to amaze me.. The cherry on the cake for me is the final Vader scene.. "This is the film your looking for"

Rogue One certainly had potential, the trailer looked great....the fact that reshoots and rewrites were decided it suffered, and it shows. From the information I had the original cut of the ending would had made for a more dramatic and sombre end....sadly we're stuck with what we now have.

There was very little depth to the characters, and the inclusion of some original characters seemed more for the fans than to carry the story - those characters simply did not need to be there....much what took place could've been handled off-screen.....I won't even write about the CGI/Motion Capture of the two original characters....shameful.....what on earth were Disney thinking?

On a positive note, the action sequences are very typical of a Star Wars movie....excellent, can not fault those at all.....they get better with each new movie.

This was one film, of the stand alone, I was most looking forward to seeing.....not a keeper for me. Would I watch it again, only if iTunes have it on a discount.

ITunes extras now available on iPad, although for what little there is might not have bothered. But saying that, I did enjoying the the content which lasted an 'hour' overall.

This is a beautiful movie, well directed, well acted and so much thought having gone into it. Fabulous. To be honest, I think I enjoyed this more than the others.

Fantastic!!!😀