At the risk of being sacrilegious, “Star Wars” - with its notions of Jedis and the Force - has become one of the world’s favorite myths, bypassing a number of traditional belief systems in its increasingly cult-like appeal (give it another century, and fandom could well crystallize into worship). If this all sounds dauntingly technical, that’s because it is. With all due respect to comic-book devotees, this is the “Suicide Squad” audiences have been waiting for this year. And quite a few of the principal characters die, which would be upsetting for young viewers, but provides fans old enough to remember seeing “Star Wars” in theaters with a heroic sacrifice designed to inspire a “Remember the Alamo!”-style rallying cry when it comes time for the Red Squadron to do its business.
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The plot is designed less like a flashy video game, and more like a down-and-dirty war movie (think documentaries about the conflict in Syria, rather than stodgy World War II films). There are no Ewoks or Jar Jar Binks-like characters here, thrown in just to appeal to pre-school-aged audiences.
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Plus (and here’s the aspect that should send longtime “Star Wars” fans into ecstatic orbit), director Gareth Edwards has finally made the first “Star Wars” movie for grown-ups.
Now we know why the Death Star has an Achilles’ heel and how that information fell into Princess Leia’s hands. Not only does “Rogue One” overlap ever so slightly with “A New Hope,” but it takes that blockbuster’s biggest weakness - that a small one-man fighter can blow up a battlestation the size of a class-four moon - and actually turns this egregious design flaw into an asset. Be warned, though: Every detail that follows could dilute the surprise factor of what’s coyly being billed as a Jedi-free spinoff, but might more accurately be described as “Star Wars: Episode 3.9,” so perfectly does it set up George Lucas’ 1977 original. No spoilers there, since earthlings first saw that glorious explosion nearly 40 years ago. A short time before “ Star Wars,” in a galaxy far, far away, the Rebel heroes featured in “ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” took the first step that led to the Death Star’s destruction.
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