A Kinder, Gentler ‘Rogue One’?
Ben Lindbergh
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Like TFA, this suffers from a linear, obvious plot (get plans) that obliterates the joys of the original trilogy’s ability to explore and experience new worlds (think the leisurely time and secondary plot deviations on Tatooine, Hoth, Cloud City, and Endor). This appears to be a simplified Great Escape action movie idea with everyone speaking in ‘big moment’ cliches and the fundamental problem that the audience already knows what happens in the end (rebels steal the plans). Add in another fearless Mary Sue operating in the strange Ghostbusters and TFA sci-fi “corrective” to damsels in distress (Ripley and Sarah Connor never happened, I guess) and this looks lame. But the nerd sheep will slurp it up as usual.