Rogue One a Star Wars Story is a stand alone movie about an event in the Star Wars universe when the Rebels, against the Empire, steal the Death Star plans so they could destroy it. The movie starts out on a planet with the main character Jyn Erso as a small child and her father Gaylen Erso getting taken by the Empire so he could help design and build the Death Star.
The story then fast forwards 22 years where Jyn then gets recruited by the Rebellion. The Rebellion wants to find Jyn’s father and an old friend of hers to help the Rebellion find ways to destroy the Death Star. The main characters then go to the Jeda, where they run into a clever and funny cameo of two characters from the 4th Episode that only true Star Wars fans would know, the two men who tried to start a fight with Luke and got his hand cut off by Obi-Wan Kenobi. They then meet two new characters named Chirrupt and Baze, the two most intriguing characters. These characters then help the Rebels find Saw Gerrera after a huge fight with the forces of the Empire.
Jyn finds Saw and finds something that if exposed could destroy the station. Meanwhile Director Krennic is getting criticized by Governor Tarkin, so he decides to test the weapon on the planet Jeda. The Rebels barely escape. They left the planet without Saw Gerrera, and the city is destroyed by the Death Star. In the long escape, the special effects and suspense becomes greater. After this, the Rebels attack an Imperial compound in hopes of finding Galen Erso to eliminate him. The Rebels find him, but the base is destroyed by the Rebellion, and Galen Erso was killed in the process.
After they escape the planet, they meet at the Rebel base on Yavin. Rebel leaders say they should attack a base to steal the plans, but Jyn takes volunteers to the planet where the plans are. A huge battle takes place on the planet with many fights on the ground and in space. In space, they used CGI to make old characters from the old movie in 1977 to appear in the movie with the same voices and faces. It was amazing how they could do that. Meanwhile, Jyn gets the plans to the fleet, but her and Cassian can’t escape when the Death Star shows up and blows up the city. The Rebel’s ship is then boarded, and it is dark and the best scene in the movie happens. While in the dark, all you hear is a familiar deep breathing, a red lightsaber turns on, and all you see and hear is Darth Vader, the most iconic movie villain of all time. While he is taking down Rebels, the plans get onto a ship just before he could get to them and the Rebels escape, but not without Darth Vader in pursuit.