Unpopular opinion: Despite his unreasonable 0/10 ranking of Rogue One, I find Mala’s opinions to be interesting and fun to read.
I give it 2/10 now ! (don’t ask me why… maybe because I feel no SW should deserve 0… and I like the soundtrack, the visual, and even if it doesn’t make much sense at a story level, the Vader’s big scene is brillant).
Rogue One’s story doesn’t make much sense?!! WHAT THE FUCK! I’m gonna have to leave this forum because of the goddamn stupidity that you assholes spew from your shit-holes!!
While my ranking for RO is around 6/10, I agree that the plot doesn’t make much sense. I’ll explain my opinion so you can get an idea where the other side is coming from:
RO should have been an easy film to make. The very premise writes itself- the rebels need to steal the Death Star plans. Why they need to over complicate this is beyond me. The rebels are initially focused on the “pilot” but Bodhi doesn’t have the actual information only a hologram. So Jyn sees the hologram and we learn that he has implemented a weakness in the Death Star towards the end of the first act and the movie should be now over.
Are you seriously telling me Jyn and co sacrificed their lives not for the battle plans but so the rebels would ‘believe them’? The rebels could have their fleet that was deciminated at the end of the movie to the DS and while they would of lost (Luke wouldn’t be there) it would have made far more sense. And if the plans weren’t in the hologram, why? If Galen has access to them it would have been smart to share them with his allies rather than tell them without evidence.
Then they go to Eadu which could be interesting but with little character development falls on it’s face. It’s only at Scarif when things get good- they finnally get to stealing plans.
RO should have spent the entire film at Scariff. A long heist for the plans, the team (which could just be an established rebel special ops squad save Jyn) slowly picked off one by one. The real RO spends 2/3 its time stalling until the end.