jasperkwint

The movie starts off great. Not many historical flaws and a very balanced execution between the different perspectives. Sadly, the second part of the movie takes a Tarantino-esq turn in tone and story (like Inglorious Basterds) and this almost ruined the movie for me. Either commit to one style or the other. Furthermore, the second half is extremele unbalanced and depict the Dutch Special Forces troops as coldblooded murders basically the whole time. If you look at the actual historical facts about Westerling, you'd see that alot of nuance is left off the table. The ending is also very strange and basically pure fiction. This wouldn't be a bad thing because Tarantino did this with Inglorious Basterds aswell and that worked out great. However, Tarantino maintained his tone and story throughout the whole movie. This movie does not. Which makes it feel very disjointed.

Speaking of acting, visuals, story and music: The acting is great (for Dutch standards) and the visuals and music are also very good. The story is very well done (for the first half) but then descends into fiction for a big part. Without spoiling it, yes there were alot of war crimes being committed at that time and place, but a whole lot of other stuff was left out. The second half felt like a montage of war crimes by the Dutch special forces without any actual story being told.

All in all, the movie is still good. The first half especially is very much worth the watch. I would still recommend it, just be warned about historical inaccuracies and lack of nuance.

Horrible. Just horrible. This movie disrespect EVERYTHING that came before it. The list is too long to write down here. If you truly care about the story and the lore/mythology of Star Wars, stay FAR away from this movie. Director J.J Abrams and 'writer' Chris Terrio just looked at the Reddit page for the Star Wars movies and took fan theories en fanfiction and decided that should be the story. Absolute mess of a 'movie' and this will go down as the number 1 example of how to NOT make movies. They check stuff off a list and insult your intelligence while rushing through the movie. Nothing sticks, nothing makes sense. Its also boring as hell. Even the lightsaber fights are incredibly boring.

Please don't see this movie in the theaters. Send a message. Watch it when it drops on your TV or something. Never support this demolishing of old and beloved franchises.

The movie was bland and sometimes even boring. Nothing really interesting happens and nothing of interest is explored. I sometimes even forgot that I was watching a Star Wars movie. Alden Eihrenreich plays a fun and cool character, just nothing like Harrison Ford's Solo. Which is the least of the problems of this movie. Lando is a disappointment, he is hardly in the movie. The droid is annoying. Calling for 'equal rights' for droids. Like really? It was just distracting. Since when are droids self-conscious? Since when do they care that they do work for aliens and humans?

The plot is bland and generic. Its just a sequence of events. It has no real focus or heart. No soul. It does nothing to deepen or explore the Star Wars lore or mythology. Lando's pan-sexuality shows a few times, but nothing extreme. There is a moment where the droid makes a comment about Lando being in love with her, which is really weird and awkward, but thats about it.

The SJW stuff is not really noticeable (except from the droid, but its not that bad, just a bit annoying). So people boycotting this for the SJW aspect can stop it and relax. Just boycott it because its a disappointing movie and Star Wars deserves better.

The hamfisted cameo from a fan favorite character in the end was pointless and stupid. That really turned me off. Especially if they plan to make a sequel to this.

Thats my opinion from JUST seeing it. Maybe I'll change some viewpoints after a while, maybe I won't. I am interested in what other people think though. Rogue One for me is still the best Disney SW movie. I would say TFA was better but TLJ killed that movie aswell. So now it looks like Rogue One is the best they can do.

I think I would have preferred Phil Lord and Chris Millers take on it. Maybe the movie would be kinda weird. But atleast it would be SOMETHING. It would atleast have a directors stamp on it. They are good directors and I like their movies. They are never generic and bland. Its a shame we are never going to see that version. Lets hope Lucasfilm hires a good director for their next spinoff (thats not the sequel to this thing).

In short : its a 'meh' movie. You can easily wait and watch it somewhere else for cheap. There is no amazing scene or something epic that you NEED to watch (Nothing like the Darth Vader scene from Rogue One as example). Nothing happens thats maybe spoiler-y. I'd say avoid it and watch it for free in a few months. Just so you won't support this.

Star Wars movies deserve better quality than this. I've seen cutscenes from Star Wars games that are better than this. Lucasfilm needs to stop playing it so safe and start listening to the fans. Start making movies for the fans, just like Marvel is doing. Respect your audience. Trust in them that they are fans and that they know the Star Wars lore, and go ahead and use that and build the mythology.