..vor allem für Fans scheint der Film ein Fest zu sein.

Genau das kritisieren Andere hingegen wieder, R1 ergötze sich zu sehr in Fanservice. Bin zwar Fan, will aber keine plumpe Aneinanderreihung von Zitaten, sondern einen für sich funktionierenden Film. Wenn ein bekanntes Element sinnvoll in die Story eingearbeitet ist, dann finde ich es toll, aber wenn die einzige Funktion solcher Zitate darin besteht, den Fans eine Referenz zu liefern, dann reisst es mich halt raus. Gerade bei SW, das vom Eskapismus leben will.

In einer Kritik zu Ep.VII stand mal: Ep.IV war das Produkt sämtlicher popkultureller Einflüsse der 50er bis 70er. Ep.VII hat nur SW als Einfluss.

Bin aus dem Alter raus, wo Referenzen und Anspielungen für mich ein Film tragen.

All the pieces are there, in other words, like Lego figures in a box. The problem is that the filmmakers haven’t really bothered to think of anything very interesting to do with them. A couple of 9-year-olds on a screen-free rainy afternoon would come up with better adventures, and probably also better dialogue. Plots and subplots are handled with clumsy expediency, and themes that might connect this movie with the larger Lucasfilm mythos aren’t allowed to develop.
You’re left wanting both more and less. There are too many characters, too much tactical and technical explanation, too much pseudo-political prattle. And at the same time, there isn’t quite enough of the filial dynamic between Galen and Jyn, and not enough weight given to the ethical and strategic problems of rebellion. When might ends justify means? What kind of sacrifice is required in the service of a righteous cause?
Popular art — “Star Wars” included — has often proved itself capable of exploring these kinds of questions with clarity, vigor and even a measure of nuance. But “Rogue One” has no such ambitions, no will to persuade the audience of anything other than the continued strength of the brand. It doesn’t so much preach to the choir as propagandize to the captives, telling us that we’re free spirits and partners on the journey. The only force at work here is the force of habit.

(...)there’s almost nothing in “Rogue One” that adds substance to the “Star Wars” realm.

The director of “Rogue One,” Gareth Edwards, has stepped into a mythopoetic stew so half-baked and overcooked, a morass of pre-instantly overanalyzed implications of such shuddering impact to the series’ fundamentalists, that he lumbers through, seemingly stunned or constrained or cautious to the vanishing point of passivity, and lets neither the characters nor the formidable cast of actors nor even the special effects, of which he has previously proved himself to be a master, come anywhere close to life.

Die positiven Kritiken zielen ja auf Effekte und Fan-Service ab. Hm....bin noch unschlüssig, ob ich nicht doch erst besser nächste Woche gehen werde.