"What I’m not so sure of: The pacing seemed all wrong in the opening 12-ish minutes. Mostly when they get to adult Jyn things start jumping around at such a quick pace that it felt rushed. A sci-fi war picture that moves is a good thing, but once they start establishing the broader team characters it was such a rush of new locations, new people and things just happening without much context that it felt like I was missing a couples pieces of the puzzle.

To be fair, I’m assuming that this special footage presentation was showing that first 12 minutes as it will play in the film and it’s possible it was slightly condensed for this presentation, but they made a pretty distinguishable transition between each block of footage, which wasn’t present here."

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/12/05/a-level-headed-reaction-to-the-rogue-one-footage-which-screened-over-the-we

"And now: the undecided news.

Everything prior to the title hitting the screen played like gangbusters. What followed was a five-minute (or so) stretch that bounced between multiple locations and characters, sometimes to a whiplash-inducing degree. In the moment, I assumed that the parade of locations (each accompanied by an on-screen title telling you where you were now) was a function of the film being sampled from for the purposes of the presentation we were watching, but afterwards I was told that, no, this is how the film plays out. That was troubling, as what was there felt, quite frankly, overly futzed-with.

Secondly: I had issues with a number of line readings and performances, particularly from secondary characters who showed up to deliver exposition and/or move scenes along. A lot of it felt like “first take” stuff, overacted or awkwardly-delivered in a way that caused me to raise an eyebrow on more than one occasion. I’ve agreed not to get into specifics on the footage which screened, so I’ll refrain from providing specific examples here, but … my guess is that you’ll know these moments when you see them."