She doesn’t know if they’ll survive it, if they will even be successful, or if anyone will even accompany her. When she's had enough, Jyn delivers a speech that silences the entire room, chastising them for their lack of hope, and taking it upon herself to take on the mission to retrieve the plans. Jyn is our presence before the Alliance Council, disillusioned and frustrated with their resignation and inaction. She holds to her faith in her father, rewarded when he tells her of the Achilles' heel he planted in the exhaust port. The pivotal key to this is Jones’ Jyn Erso. Or, perhaps more truthfully, one person can make a difference. Most importantly, Rogue One gives us a reason to believe that a small group of misfits can make a difference. It's also the first time we see Vader use the Force to such a deadly extreme, adding a level of menace to the character unseen prior and effectively driving home the notion that Anakin Skywalker, truly, is dead. His wielding of the Force to viciously cast aside rebel soldiers as the Death Star plans are taken by the Tantive IV reestablishes the character's true villainy after having it neutered by the infamous "NOOOO!" at the end of Revenge of the Sith. That character? The one and only Darth Vader ( Spencer Wilding/ Daniel Naprous). The second character's use of the Force is actually far more impressive as it has impacts on the films that follow in sequence.
His use of the Force is also more grounded, something that allows him to function and fight despite being visionless. The first is Chirrut Îmwe ( Donnie Yen), a blind warrior, and what makes him unique is that he is a strong believer in the Force (repeating his mantra "the Force is with me, I am one with the Force" over and over), a user of the Force, but is neither Jedi nor Sith, where most Force-sensitive characters are on one side or the other. Two characters, though, represent a new interpretation of the Force. These are combatants in a battle against oppressors that need to fulfill a mission they may not survive, placing the film among such hard-hitters as The Dirty Dozen or Force 10 From Navarone (with Han Solo himself, Harrison Ford). By having that focused approach, it also gives Rogue One the feel of a classic war film that doesn’t get derailed by the Force, or by Jedis, or Sith (mostly, but we'll get to that). We know the plans get to where they are going, but we are enraptured by the journey. This gives the film freedom to create, while having a focused approach to its end goal, and that is captivating. It doesn't need to catch up on the will they/won't they of Han ( Harrison Ford) and Leia ( Carrie Fisher), or Luke's ( Mark Hamill) Force training and endless drivel about how there's still good in dear old dad. Unbound by the mythology of the main Star Wars films, Rogue One only has one purpose, and that is to explain how the Death Star plans make it to the Rebels before A New Hope. It's about a group of rebels who join together to steal the plans for the Empire's Death Star. But what would you say if you were told the best film in the franchise has none of these elements? This brings us to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Epic take-downs of giant battle stations. Computers are taking all the other jobs, so perhaps acting is next.The legendary Star Wars franchise has seen more highs and lows than a landspeeder, from the heights of The Empire Strikes Back to the lows of Attack of the Clones. Mixed results aside, the fact that Tarkin was able to fool anyone is remarkable, the mark of film technology that has advanced far beyond what anyone in 1977 could have imagined possible. But for people who know of Cushing’s role in the original film (and know the actor has since passed away), Tarkin’s uncanny existence in Rogue One was a distraction from an otherwise colorful, energetic film. My theater companion neither saw the original nor expected to see a computer-generated character, so she didn’t even notice anything was amiss-until I told her and ruined it.
One’s reaction to the reanimated Cushing likely depends on two things: Whether or not you’ve seen the original Star Wars films, and whether you knew Tarkin would appear in Rogue One before seeing it. But Tarkin is a major character in the film, and I found it impossible to pay attention to anything it was saying as I tried to wrap my head around what exactly I was looking at. Used sparingly (as with a CG-rejuvenated youthful version of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia), it might not have been so distracting. It is the very definition of the uncanny valley-an unsettling, artificial humanoid plopped down right in the middle of scenes with actual human actors. Its voice, performed by a mimic, sounds only vaguely like Cushing’s did. Its mouth does not move as a human’s mouth should. Personally, I found the character to be a monstrosity.
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