“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” is the first live-action “Star Wars” spin-off movie to hit theatres. It’s a very entertaining sci-fi/adventure flick that finally answers some of the questions many fans have wanted to know since the original “Star Wars” film was released in 1977.

Set just prior to the events of the original “Star Wars” (now known as “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope”), this movie tells the tale of the Rebellion making a daring move to capture the design plans of the Empire’s Death Star in order to locate its weakness. The film of course leads straight into the original “Star Wars”.

The main protagonist of the film is Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones “Inferno”) and she’s not great but far more tolerable than Rey from “The Force Awakens”. There are some big names in this one including Forest Whitaker (“Phone Booth”), Mads Mikkelsen (“Casino Royale”) and Riz Ahmed (“Four Lions”) but easily my favourite is Donnie Yen (“Hero”), who plays a blind monk. James Earl Jones (“The Lion King”) returns to once again voice Darth Vader, which is of course fantastic. This film also contains digital reconstructions of the faces of Peter Cushing’s Governor Tarkin and a younger Carrie Fisher’s Prince Leia and while I think they’ve done an excellent job, the technology isn’t quite there yet and they look dead in the eyes.

“Rogue One” contains truly impressive action, I loved some of the answers we are given to questions raised by some of the other “Star Wars” movies and I enjoyed its expansion of the franchise’s universe. However, I can’t help feel that the movie that the movie suffers because it is trying to hold back a little. It’s trying not to have all the best characters and the best story because this isn’t the main series, this a spin-off and it doesn’t want to upstage the main films. The movie has lots of hidden references for fans (I spotted the blue milk) so “Star Wars” fans are going to be talking about all the little details for a while.