Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Review

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Release Date: 15th December 2016 - Australia

Production Companies

Lucasfilm Ltd.

Distribution

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Australia

Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M

Runtime: 134 minutes

Budget: $265,000,000

Box Office Gross: $1,058,684,742 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

The daughter of an Imperial officer, Jyn Erso, has been on her own and now finds herself recruited by the Rebel Alliance to gather information on the Empire's newly constructed weapon, the Death Star.

Jyn, Cassian Andor, Bodhi Rook and their practical droid K-2SO needed to find one squadron to bring the galaxy peace by stealing the Death Star's technical readout. They joined forces with Baze Malbus, an assassin and spiritual partner, Chirrut Imwe. They also meet Clone Wars veteran Saw Gerrara.

With competition, the military director Orson Krennic will not stop until the Death Star gets completed. All the while, the weapon is under the watchful eye of Darth Vader.

Cast

Felicity Jones - Jyn Erso

Diego Luna - Cassian Andor

Alan Tudyk - K-2SO

Donnie Yen - Chirrut Îmwe

Wen Jiang - Baze Malbus

Ben Mendelsohn - Orson Krennic

Guy Henry - Governor Tarkin

Forest Whitaker - Saw Gerrara

Riz Ahmed - Bodhi Rook

Mads Mikkelsen - Galen Erso

Jimmy Smits - Bail Organa

Alistair Petrie - General Draven

Genevieve O'Reilly - Mon Mothma

Ben Daniels - General Merrick

Paul Kasey - Admiral Raddus

Stephen Standon - Admiral

Raddus (Voice)

Ian McElhenny - General Dodonna

Fares Fares - Senator Vaspar

Jonathan Aris - Senator Jebel

Sharon Duncan-Brewster -

Senator Pamlo

Spencer Wilding - Darth Vader

Daniel Naprous - Darth Vader

James Earl Jones - Darth Vader (Voice)

Ingvild Delia - Princess Leia

Anthony Daniels - C-3PO (Cameo)

Valene Kane - Lyra Erso

Beau Gadsdon - Young Lyn

Dolly Gadsdon - Younger Lyn

Duncan Pow - Sergeant Melshi

Jordan Stephens - Corporal Tenc

Babou Ceesay - Lieutenant Sefia

Aidan Cook - Two Tubes

Daniel Mays - Tivik

Andy de la Tour - General Hurst Romodi

Tony Pitts - Captain Pterro

Martin Gordon - Vaneé

Eric MacLennan - Rebel Tech

Robin Pearce - Rebel Tech

Francis Magee - Grizzly Rebel

Bronson Webb - Rebel MP

Tim Beckmann - Captain Antilles

Geraldine James - Blue Three

Ariyon Bakare - Blue Four
Simon Farnaby - Blue Five

Drewe Henley - Red Leader (Archive Footage)
Angus MacInnes - Gold Leader (Voice)

Gabby Wong - Gold Nine

Richard Glover - Red Twelve

Toby Hefferman - Blue Eight

Richard Cunningham - General

Ramda

Jack Roth - Lieutenant Adema

Michael Gould - Admiral Gorin

Rufus Wright - Lieutenant Casido

Michael Shaeffer - General Corssin

Geoff Bell - 2nd Lieutenant Frobb

James Harkness - Private Basteren

Derek Arnold - Pao

Matt Rippy - Corporal Rostock

Nick Kellington - Bistan

Michael Nardone - Shield Gate Officer

Nathan Plant - Imperial Guard Droid

Christopher Patrick Nolan -

Alderaanian Guard

Michael Smiley - Dr. Evazan

Warwick Davis - Weeteef Cyubee

Dee Tails - L-1

Ruth Bell - Jedha Server

May Bell - Jedha Server

Angus Wright - Hammerhead Captain

Keith Dunphy - Blockade Runner Pilot

Alan Rushton - Engineer

Robert Bendetti-Hall - Engineer

Richard Franklin - Engineer

Weston Gavin - Engineer

Nick Hobbs - Engineer

David Ankrum - Wedge Antilles (Voice)

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Ram Bergman - Death Star Technician #2

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Gareth Edwards - Rebel Soldier (Cameo)

(Uncredited)

Tony Gilroy - Rebel Flight Controller

(Voice) (Uncredited)

Rian Johnson - Imperial Technician (Cameo)

(Uncredited)

Crew

Director - Gareth Edwards

Based on Characters - George Lucas

Story - Gary Whitta

Story/Executive Producer/Visual Effects

Supervisor - John Knoll

Screenplay - Chris Weitz

Screenplay/Director: Reshoots (Uncredited) -

Tony Gilroy

Associate Producer/First Assistant Director -

Toby Hefferman

Executive Producer - Jason D. McGatlin

Producer/Unit Production Manager -

Simon Emanuel

Producers - Kathleen Kennedy and

Alison Shearmur

Co-Producers - Kiri Hart and John Swartz

Co-Producer/Unit Production Manager -

Susan Towner
Casting Director - Jina Jay
Dialect Coach - Andrew Jack

Production Designers - Doug Chaing and

Neil Lamont

Concept Designer: Lucasfilm - Kevin Jenkins

Lead Concept Artist - Matt Allsopp

Concept Artists - Christian Alzmann,

Chris & Julian Caldow, Kinman Chan,

Ryan Church, Rene Garcia, David Hobbins,

Will Htay, Vincent Jenkins, Dominic Lavery,

Khang Le, Richard Lim, Aaron McBride,

Jon McCoy, John Park, Matt Savage,

Thom Tenery, Erik Tiemens, Jan Urschel

and Andree Wallin
Supervising Art Director - Alastair Bullock
Senior Art Directors - Stuart Rose
and Gary Tomkins

Art Directors - Alex Baily, Robert Cowper,

Jordana Finkel, Lydia Fry, Ashley Lamont,

Steven Lawrence, Oliver Roberts,

Stephen Swain and Helen Xenopoulos

Construction Manager - Paul J. Hayes

Set Decorator - Lee Sandales

Property Master - Jamie Wilkinson

Costume Designers - David Crossman
and Glyn Dillon

Costume Supervisor - Graham Churchyard

Head of Department Modeller - Pierre Bohanna

Makeup Designer - Amanda Knight

Hair Designer - Lisa Tomblin

Director of Photography - Greig Fraser

Director of Photography: Action Unit -

Fraser Taggart

Director of Photography: Second Unit/

Camera Operator - Barry Baz Idoine

Aerial Director of Photography: Second Unit -

Adam Dale

Pilot: Second Unit - Marc Wolff

First Assistant Director - Toby Hefferman

Second Assistant Directors: Second Unit -

Tom Edmondson, David Keadell,

Tom Mulburge and Andrew Young

Supervising Location Manager - Mark Somner

Location Manager: Iceland Unit - Thor Kjartansson

Production Coordinator: Jordan Unit - Nada Atieh

Second Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator:

Reshoots - Simon Crane

Second Unit Director - John Mahaffie
Stunt Coordinator - Rob Inch

Fight Coordinator - C.C. Smiff

Assistant Fight Coordinator - Liang Yang

Creature Movement Choreographer - Paul Kasey

Special Effects Supervisor - Neil Corbould

Special Effects Floor Supervisor - Caimin Bourne

Special Creature Effects - Neal Scanlan

Electronic Design and Development Supervisor -

Matthew Denton

Supervising Animatronic Designers - Gustav Hoegen,

Vanessa Bastyan and Maria Cork

Visual Effects Supervisors: ILM - Nigel Sumner,

Dave Dally and Craig Hammack

Additional Visual Effects: Whiskytree - Joe Ceballos,

Jonathan Harb, Tuan Ho, Paul Hudson,

Michael Kennen, Brian Meanley,

Juan Pablo Monroy, Allison Meyers and

Pierre Nahoum

Additional Visual Effects: Atomic Fiction -

Wayne Brinton, Kevin Couture, Darnie Galloway,

Seth Hill, Woei His Lee, Marc Sadeghi,

Dale Taylor and Ryan Tudhope

Visual Effects Producers - Lucas Tewin

and Erin D. O'Connor

Visual Effects Producers: ILM - TJ Falls,

Sophie Cullen and Ben Lock

Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - Yanick Dusseault

Art Department: ILM - Jennifer Coronado

and David Nakabayashi

Animation Supervisor: ILM - Hal T. Hickel

Computer Graphics Supervisor: BLIND LTD -

Andrew Booth

Asset and Environment Supervisors: ILM -

Enrico Damm, Paul Giacoppo, Russell Paul

and Steve Walton

Digital Artist Supervisors: ILM - Beth D'Amato,

Ryan Hopkins, Cyrus Jam, John Levin,

Patrik Marek, David Meny and James Tooley

Compositing Supervisors: ILM - Ivan Busquets,

John J. Galloway, Alex Prichard and

Jeff Sutherland

Editors - John Gilroy, Colin Goudie
and Jabez Olssen

Additional Editor - Stuart Baird

Supervising Sound Editor (Uncredited)/

Sound Designer - David Acord

Re-Recording Mixer/Sound Designer/

Supervising Sound Editor - Christopher Scarabosio

Supervising Sound Editor - Matthew Wood

Foley Supervisor/Artist (Uncredited) -

Frank Rinella

Foley Editors - Ryan J. Frias and

Kimberly Patrick

Foley Artists - Ronni Brown and

Margie O'Malley

Sound Mixer - Stuart Wilson

Re-Recording Mixer - David Parker

Additional Re-Recording Mixers -

Michael Semanick, Luke Dunn-Gielmuda

and Tony Villafor

Original Star Wars Music - John Williams

Music - Michael Giacchino

Supervising Music Editor - John Finklea

Scoring & Mixing Engineers - Peter Cobbin

and Joel Iwataki

Review

A new hope begins for Star Wars with Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm and the spectacular release of 2015's The Force Awakens from J.J. Abrams. It relives the adventure, magic, thrills, and excitement the divisive prequel trilogy lacked. This film regained fans' interest and proved that the series could continue without George Lucas' involvement. ROGUE ONE marks the first of standalone spinoffs yet to be released. However, an extensive amount of reshoots were necessary to finish the film. It is said to have a darker and more melancholy tone similar to The Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith.

In ROGUE ONE, the characters weren't as strong as those in The Force Awakens, with a few exceptions, like the droid with an alec personality named K-2SO. It's very intriguing for the film to set up the plot for the first Star Wars movie (click here) 39 years ago. It also boasted some impressive action and drama and demonstrated what the Rebels were like before they scored their first victory against the Empire.

Some old characters introduced in A New Hope returned in a cameo or a supporting role. Grand Moff Tarkin is no exception. However, CGI is applied to reconstruct the late Peter Cushing's likeness into the character he portrayed 29 years ago. Also returning is our fan-favourite Sith Lord, Darth Vader, and no longer is he the tragic character of the prequels, but instead shows a brutal side not seen in the originals.

ROGUE ONE is a very organic byproduct of the Star Wars series and the closest thing you'll get from a prequel. It is also a perfect entry for newcomers to the series if a few people are unfamiliar with Star Wars.

Star rating: (10/10) Best Movie Ever

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