Gadgetory

a long time ago in a galaxy far far away there was a movie called Star Wars what we didn't know until now is that around the back of Star Wars just out of sight another movie was playing out that movie was road one rebels on you Road one the first Star Wars spin-off takes us through a host of new worlds and introduces us to a bunch of new faces but it's intertwined with the saga we know as these previously unknown minor characters and bit part players do their bit against the evil empire stealing the plans to the dreaded Death Star and we all know how that turned out the ragtag band of new characters led by plucky Felicity Jones includes the hilarious alan tudyk as straight-talking droid k2s oh and affecting donnie yen as a warrior monk with a touch of the jedi about him together they take on Ben Mendelssohn's ambitious Imperial bureaucrat in a gritty dust Street tale that largely takes place at street level somewhere around the corner from the original movies as Rho 1 rubs up against their new hope we do meet a few old faces some of which work better than others but it's pretty liberating to watch a blockbuster in which you know there's no sequels franchises or civil wars to come and so you genuinely don't know which characters are going to make it but I despite knowing roughly how it's all going to turn out there are a lot of thrills to be had director Gareth Edwards dives into the classic Star Wars toy box for I puffing pulse pounding action that dials the classic series up to 11 the climax is electrifying proving you don't need Skywalker's to tell a spectacular Star Wars story basing the dark side at street level road one is a force to be reckoned with you