Should Have Created Some Coherency

An absolutely amazing collection of seamless, inventive, ever-present yet subtly-used special effects in one of the most bland, disjointed, and misguided films ever put on celluloid. Or, rather, hard drives- apparently it was shot on digital cameras you can walk out of Best Buy with for less than $4000. Which is pretty awesome, considering how truly revolutionary these visual effects are. But, oh, what a head-scratcher, narrative-wise.

Check it out, though, if only to marvel at what you’re seeing on screen for a bit (I somehow made it about 90 minutes before I gave up for the night and finished it the next day. While doing other things). Just don’t expect to care about anyone in it or understand how characters seem to just forget everything that happened before the scene they’re currently in. 

I see now why they course corrected Rogue One after principal photography. Gareth Edwards has a unique visual style, but his storytelling sense is severely lacking. John David Washington deserved better than this.

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