![]() ![]() Shortly after Jyn sees her father's message, Saw's outpost is attacked, the message lost. The decision to resurrect actors using CGI is also ill-advised, the result weird and distracting. But while it's great to see Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen placed into Star Wars lore as a catalyst for the Rebel Alliance the British Jones lacks the fire Daisy Ridley brought to Chapter VII. President Elect), director Gareth Edwards ("Monsters," 2014's "Godzilla") favors nitty gritty action over science fiction flourishes. With a screenplay by Chris Weitz (2015's "Cinderella") and Tony Gilroy ("Michael Clayton") that delves into the fears and hopes which drive rebel politics and heroism (and will be noted by many as an apt metaphor for opposition to the U.S. Now a young woman, Jyn (Felicity Jones, "The Theory of Everything") seeks the rebel outlaw Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker) who raised her, but she finds so much more - a holographic message from her father that gives Jyn enough hope to go "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story." This is the first of Disney/Lucasfilm's standalone "Star Wars" movies, a deep dive into just what it took for the rebels to steal the Death Star blueprints. When she was a little girl, Jyn Erso witnessed the Galactic Empire's Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn, "Animal Kingdom," TV's 'Bloodline') tear her family apart, killing her mother Lyra (Valene Kane, "'71") and forcing her scientist father Galen (Mads Mikkelsen, "Doctor Strange") to resume his work building the Empire's most formidable weapon, the Death Star.
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