Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

There, I said it. This film is genuinely really good. It throws away the campiness and lightsabers in favour of being an intergalactic war film with high stakes, expendable characters, and a good tie in to the first movie, as an unlikely team of rebels do their part to release the Death Star plans to the rebel alliance. The acting is solid, the story is good, you're never expecting who might survive or not, and the stakes are as high as they can be. Tied in with a surprisingly good non-Sith villain and the epic scene at the end where Darth Vader slaughters everyone in his big-screen return, this movie really does tick all the boxes.