Star Wars Rogue One: 10 Reasons It's Awesome

There was a lot of pre-release chatter that Disney were concerned about Rogue One's darker, more morally ambiguous tone, and while there's never any doubt that we're watching a band of heroes attempting to take down an evil Empire, there is a more generally soupy morality here than in most of the Star Wars movies.

Most of the moral grey area is occupied by Diego Luna's terrific Cassian Andor, an intelligence officer in the Rebel Alliance who, early in the movie, kills a seemingly innocent man who may have compromised his mission if left alive. It's a shocking moment and sets the tone moving forward.

Later in the film, Cassian is tasked with taking another life which results in an incredibly loaded conversation with Jyn, who calls him a cold-blooded killer while he dismisses her as over-emotional. If Cassian's stance seems cold and detached to Jyn, he adds that he's been fighting since he was a child, and Jyn's not the only one to have suffered loss in her life.

This is a great way to heighten the bond between these two characters while also making many of the group's missions seem less cut-and-dried from a moral perspective.