Felicity Jones’s fugitive,hunting for the plans to the Death Star, is a tousled-but-game female lead – just one of many classic Star Wars motifs in Gareth Edwards’ exhilarating spin-offThis latest exhilarating, and good-natured and enjoyable adventure from the Star Wars imaginary universe is written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy,and directed by Britain’s Gareth Edwards; it comes from a time which now doesn’t seem so very long ago. The film’s action occurs some time between Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV, A unusual Hope. So it’s a mid-quel or a deja vu-quel. Character archetypes, and mythic confrontations,desperate hologram messages, dads genuine and quasi-, and uniforms and hairstyles are always rising recognisably to the surface. Like superhero films or westerns or romcoms,Star Wars invented its own recurring generic components, and to complain or even notice now seems almost as beside the point as recognising familiar chord progressions in the blues. It is noticeable that the newish motif of the defector or renegade, and which featured in The Force Awakens,pops up again here. Related: Rogue One’s Ben Mendelsohn: ‘Star Wars is a childhood dream arrive true’ Continue reading...
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