“During the battle, rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the Death Star”. “Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire”, ran the opening scrawl of Lucas’s original 1977 film. Despite using cutting-edge CGI to breathe uncanny artificial life into characters we never thought we’d see again, Rogue One feels like part of the same cinematic universe that gave us The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – the high-water mark to which all subsequent episodes aspire. Fittingly, British director Gareth Edwards’s dark and moody space opera bridges the gap between the old-school 70s charm and ultra-modern 21st-century wizardry of this still evolving series. The first of the new series of Star Wars spin-offs (or “anthology” films), this standalone instalment sits between the last of George Lucas’s disappointing digital prequels Revenge of the Sith and his winningly physical original Star Wars.
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