From designers to consumers, hairdressers, prosthetic makers and appliers, builders in both the real and digital world, the artistic integrity here is phenomenal and I think they should be up there when the Oscars come around. However, having good locations is just part of the equation, you also need to fill them with sets, costumes, aliens, AT-ATs to make them feel like they are from another world and every department comes has to come together to make this work.
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They are all very different from each other, but they are expertly used here to give real character to the Star Wars planets they are standing in for, if Icelandic tourism does not explode from this there is no justice. Firstly, you need to have spectacular locations and how could you go past Iceland, Jorden and The Maldives.
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Every location they visited felt like a real place that I could hop on a plane and visit, and that takes a lot of different departments working in sync to pull off. To start we need to talk about the visuals because they are just spectacular in every way, I thought The Force Awakens set a high bar, but Rogue One excelled past that at the speed of light. So once you have the goodwill you have to do something with it, you have to show why this needed to be filmed, why a throwaway line in A New Hope was not sufficient to tell the story, and on that front Rogue One excels. However, by attaching Rogue One to the Original Trilogy movies gives the films a better base of goodwill to draw upon. This is really important because the prequels, generally speaking, left a bad taste in people’s mouths to the point that The Force Awakens went to great lengths to distance itself from those critically panned and structurally flawed films. So where does Rogue One fit into the larger Star Wars universe? Well, it is a prequel to the original trilogy and a sequel to the prequel trilogy, sitting in that time between the two but in many respects, it can be considered a prologue to A New Hope. The worlds in Rogue One are brilliantly realised.
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Now we will be discussing the story later in the review, so I’ll put a Spoiler Warning out before that, but I feel with a property like this, it is important to say, I will be discussing aspects of the film and the characters and you may find that to be spoilery, so you have been warned to continue with caution. Now is it a perfect film, oh no, it has some real problems, but any issue I could have with it is blasted away by some quality filmmaking.
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Now this coupled with extensive reshoots in a year where extensive reshoots have led to mediocre films like Suicide Squad and outright failures like Fantastic Four had a lot of people concerned, is the prequel curse going to continue? Well, I am happy to say those reshoots must have only improved the movie because Rogue One is a blast. So here we are with Star War’s first attempt at a standalone film (a film set in the Star Wars universe, but not one of the main numbered entries) and a prequel no less, by any measure this was a risky gambit for the Mouse House, because the last thing you want to do to your $4 Billion investment is damaging the brand with a bad movie.