– Flash forward about 15 years and Jyn is all grown up and is found by the Rebels, as they need her help finding her father. – I know, it’s a lot of unusual names you’ve never heard, and there’s a lot more, but you don’t really need to keep track of all of them to follow the story. But he knows they won’t take in his family, so he has his little daughter Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) hide until his friend Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker) can take her to safety.

The father, Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), used to work for the Empire and helped them get started with building the Death Star before he retired to a beachside abode, and now the Empire wants him back to help them complete it. We start with a mom, dad and daughter scrambling to hide from something they expected to be coming. Remember, although this movie fits in with the middle set of the three trilogies, it’s not a part of that story. This Star Wars movie starts abruptly for those expecting the opening story crawl you’ve seen in all the other films. If you haven’t seen “A New Hope”, sorry for the spoilers (but the Rogue One crew do successfully steal the plans). Rogue One tells the story of how those plans were stolen, and it’s interesting. The very first Star Wars movie, “A New Hope”, which came out in the late ‘70s, starts off with Darth Vader boarding a rebel ship, looking to take back the stolen plans for the Death Star before Princess Leia and the Rebels use them to figure out how to attack the planet killer. If you are a big fan like me, then you probably already know the plot of “Rogue One”. As a stand-alone film, it’s definitely worth seeing, even if you’re not a big Star Wars fan. “Rogue One” is an excellent Star Wars story starring a bunch of characters you don’t know. From left are Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and K-2SO (Alan Tudyk) in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”.

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