In crafting an exciting epic, director Gareth Edwards keeps the mayhem inherent in his story of armed conflict virtually bloodless.

An amusingly straight-talking android, K-2SO is the source of most of the movie’s wry comic relief. Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as well as that of his mechanical sidekick, K-2SO (Alan Tudyk).

To prove this, she’ll need the help of intrepid Alliance officer Capt. As the daughter of Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), the brilliant scientist who unwillingly developed the technology behind the Death Star while being held captive, she has reason to believe that the armament can be sabotaged from within. This crisis draws the movie’s main character, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), to center stage. With its potential to wipe out entire planets, the Death Star could doom the efforts of the gallant Rebel Alliance, headed by Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly), to resist subjugation. “A New Worry” might be an apt subtitle for “Rogue One” since its plot is driven by the fact that the evil Empire - served, most prominently, by Grand Moff Tarkin (a computer-generated projection of the late Peter Cushing) and Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) - is on the verge of deploying a game-changing new weapon, the Death Star. Interstellar derring-do is once again the order of the day as this latest film in the series provides a rousing prequel to writer-director George Lucas’ 1977 original, subsequently dubbed “Episode IV – A New Hope.” NEW YORK (CNS) - With “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” last year’s promising reignition of the iconic franchise, “The Force Awakens,” gains a worthy - and equally family-friendly - companion.

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