The shadow of the Dark Side looms over the film with appearances from familiar villains, but Rogue One is in many ways a look at the banality of evil, of the workaday compromise and low-level corruption that keeps the cogs of galactic tyranny grinding.
He's a petty bureaucrat, an ambitious opportunist blindly serving men who take advantage of his shortsighted ego to show what evil really is. Like the heroes, Krennic is really a minor character in the Star Wars saga, a footnote in galactic history. On the opposite side of the Force is the sneering Director Krennic, played with pantomime relish by Ben Mendelsohn. The film sets up a range of interesting characters - Whitaker's extremist rebel, for example, or Ahmed's guilt-ridden Imperial pilot - but doesn't fully commit to its intriguing ideas.ĭiego Luna, in particular, fails to convince as an icy assassin, but that could also be because his soulful eyes are just soooo dreamy.Īnd as interesting as the individual characters are, they don't spark the kind of chemistry that we saw between Rey, Finn and Poe and that carried us through the far sillier The Force Awakens. That's a compliment to his hilarious performance, but it also shows how the rest of the talented cast is left shortchanged by the script.
Despite being a concoction of motion capture and CGI, Alan Tudyk's droid K-2SO is one of the most lifelike of the characters.
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