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Was it good?

I thought it was good, not great. It did not have the lovable characters and humor of the original first three movies. I wished there had been a little more chuckle-worthy humor. On the plus side, it was not extremely irritating the way “Phantom Menace” “Attack of the Clones” were with Jar Jar Binks and the zero BLAHH non-chemistry between Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen.

The movie is set in a time immediately preceding the very first Star Wars movie. At the start of the movie there was no printed narrative (written episode update) fading into space, I missed that. C-3PO and R2D2 made an extremely brief cameo. No Chewbacca boo. No Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, boo. There was a five second BRILLIANT cameo of Princess Leia at the end, it looked like really good CGI. Darth Vader was back and his appearance wasn’t just a momentary cameo. Yay.

What I REALLY liked was the CGI version of Grand Moff Tarkin, originally played in 1977 by Peter Cushing. Peter Cushing died in 1994. The Rogue One Tarkin face was really good CGI superimposed on the face of an actor who had the same skull dimensions. The recreation of Cushing’s voice was very good also.

Overall, I liked the movie and I will go see it again.