I watched this after seeing both Andor Season 1 and most of Ashoka Season 1, which actually make it better I think. I giggled when I heard “General Syndulla report to xxx” in one of the scenes @ Rebel HQ, tho that was it, I immediately pictured her from the (very) recently viewed Ashoka.
I initially rated it 8, I now knocked it down to 7, more granularly it would be a 7.5 — enough stuff missing to make it truly Great, but almost there. The main problem is like others have stated, rather flat characters. For example, we heard the pilot could “lose one’s mind” and indeed at the beginning of the gang meeting him, post-traumatic experience, he seems “out there,” but it’s never really addressed and then he kinda seems fine as the story goes on.
For me it was a little weird to see Andor’s personality in this film, this was shot prior to Andor Season 1 of course, but if you view them “in reverse” like me it can seem a little.. strange. Toward the end of the film it kinda ties back tho (to the future Andor Season 1, which is technically in the past story-wise).
Some of the battles are logically flawed, and badly, but it’s par for the course it seems, not as offending and far fetched as, for example, some of the stuff in the (cancelled) BoBF. And there was a certain ESB quality to the movie, well done in that regard.
Review by mtrakBlockedParent2023-10-03T16:17:43Z
I watched this after seeing both Andor Season 1 and most of Ashoka Season 1, which actually make it better I think. I giggled when I heard “General Syndulla report to xxx” in one of the scenes @ Rebel HQ, tho that was it, I immediately pictured her from the (very) recently viewed Ashoka.
I initially rated it 8, I now knocked it down to 7, more granularly it would be a 7.5 — enough stuff missing to make it truly Great, but almost there. The main problem is like others have stated, rather flat characters. For example, we heard the pilot could “lose one’s mind” and indeed at the beginning of the gang meeting him, post-traumatic experience, he seems “out there,” but it’s never really addressed and then he kinda seems fine as the story goes on.
For me it was a little weird to see Andor’s personality in this film, this was shot prior to Andor Season 1 of course, but if you view them “in reverse” like me it can seem a little.. strange. Toward the end of the film it kinda ties back tho (to the future Andor Season 1, which is technically in the past story-wise).
Some of the battles are logically flawed, and badly, but it’s par for the course it seems, not as offending and far fetched as, for example, some of the stuff in the (cancelled) BoBF. And there was a certain ESB quality to the movie, well done in that regard.
Anyhoo, I thoroughly enjoyed it!