Originally Posted by Abob Teff

Jyn Erso is Snoke?! Holy shit!

I am eagerly awaiting the post-release conversation on this -- thank you for setting it up Oldboy!

The pre-release discussion is interesting due to the number of people saying "temper your expectations, this won't be great without Luke, Han, and Leia". Notice nobody mentions Chewie in that breath ... no medal again. Anyway, it will be interesting!

Originally Posted by redcon1

Currently at 84% on RT. 41 Fresh, 8 Rotten.

Originally Posted by SmackDaddy

92% Fresh (333 fresh, 28 rotten)

Originally Posted by Richard Roeper

So why three and a half stars? Why not the full four stars? There was a little too much “We’ve got to do this!” and “I’m going to explain that!” in the dialogue — and the score was a bit heavy-handed and overbearing in the transitions from “inspirational music to accompany our heroes” to “foreboding harbinger of bad things to come” when various villains enter the picture.

Small stuff. Mostly and most memorably, “Rogue One” is a bright light in the “Star Wars” canon.

Originally Posted by RichC2

Sounds like fan critics are loving it while regular critics are struggling to find anything unique about it.

Roeper's conclusion makes sense too:

Originally Posted by Mike86

I dunno some of the fan critic reviews I've listened to aren't bashing it but seem a bit mixed. It sounds like there's a lack of good characterization save for a few characters. None of them seem to really hate it but I don't think its going to knock our socks off with how great it is.

Originally Posted by Paul_SD

Stuckmann's non spoiler review

Originally Posted by Dan

Why does that dude always have such an obnoxious fucking look on his face in his terrible YouTube thumbnails. Makes me want to punch him.

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum

A.O. Scott gives it a negative review in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/mo...dayspaper&_r=0

Here's a quote:
Millions of people will sit through this thoroughly mediocre movie (directed with basic competence by Gareth Edwards from a surprisingly hackish script by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy) and convince themselves that it’s perfectly delightful. It’s so much easier to obey than to resist. The spoiler warning sent by the Disney empire instructed journalists to “continue to be our partners on this journey,” and defiance is unthinkable, even if “partner” is taken as a synonym for “shill.”

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum

A.O. Scott gives it a negative review in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/mo...dayspaper&_r=0

Here's a quote:
Millions of people will sit through this thoroughly mediocre movie (directed with basic competence by Gareth Edwards from a surprisingly hackish script by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy) and convince themselves that it’s perfectly delightful. It’s so much easier to obey than to resist. The spoiler warning sent by the Disney empire instructed journalists to “continue to be our partners on this journey,” and defiance is unthinkable, even if “partner” is taken as a synonym for “shill.”

Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ

That sounds a lot like The Phantom Menace. A lot of people saw it for what it was right off the bat but there was a large number of fanboys who were in denial for quite some time.