It's pros are it had: Shiro, a blind monk(?) who follows the force and his friend, Gavin who was a scientist that had a noble sacrifice for creating the death star that I genuinely enjoyed. Some of the planets had legitimately cool and unique designs. Otherwise not much I can think of. The pilot was legitimately interesting in how he changed throughout the movie and deserves a MVP award with what he does, and Gavin's rival, the battle director, is pretty interesting with how his problems with the empire arise and how he is fucked by bureaucracy and is at times inept considering his high rank in the empire. Shiro has the sort of Ben Kenobi vibe where you can actually believe in the Force and see its power, making this sort of magical element trump dystopian science, and it felt really nice just seeing him do stuff in each scene.

Cons: To preface this, the idea of this kind of movie works when you feel genuine comfort and care for the characters, and still want them to succeed even if you know the outcome of what happens(which is talk about in episode four very briefly).

The main cast of characters sucked for the most part. Cassian was just a random smug assassin(?) who was unlikeable from the start and gets a random change of heart near the end with 0 preface to him. The entire time I hated what he was doing because it felt inauthentic and forced, like a shoddy C-rate Han Solo rather than a unique character. K2 had some alright moments with his deadpan humor but lacked any sort of major involvement other than the end of the movie. He literally sat and did nothing for a lot of the movie while pouring out bullshit statistics on chances of success and was wrong every single time, leading me to never believe what he had to say based on the scenario(He was a strategist droid that couldnt predict strategy to save his life and that never was embraced or anything, it was just him being wrong). The pilot went insane after being mindfucked by the tentacle beast then reverts to normal in the very next scene, with zero trauma after interaction. They made Solgareo some crucial person in the first act, only to establish backstory with jyn that really doesn't make sense after he saves her and then have an idiotic death that was by and far unnecessary.

The dialogue felt synthetic and inhumane, and made me disgusted at cheesy lines like "there hasn't been a day where I thought about you", and everyone just felt like they were pouring out words for the sake of doing so, unlike in 4/5/6 where there was banter between Han and anyone else, or just seem like the people who were talking to each other real, believable people. I understand that only two people followed the force but still it felt like the hope that came from some of the main cast wasn't because they have some sort of realistic progression, but moreso that it was just forced in and that they were stubborn on the subject or expected to change for the story to try and wrap itself up.

Creatively the sound score sucked ass, the first planet that characters are spending the first act on is Tatooine v3, and the CGI grossed me out. Tarkin, Leia, and Darth Vader(without suit) looked gross and alien-like, and I hated the stupid fan throwbacks to R2/C3, Leia, and the sorta last scene in general. All of that felt forced in and sorta takes out any imagination in the world of Star Wars.

The camera work in action scenes was cluttered and very hard to follow, along with action scenes taking too long at times managed to bore my 12 year old brother, much less myself.

They also sort of forced a council meeting of the alliance, which was a tad bit boring but understandable until there were people saying they just give up to the empire. They also made the alliance seem like it had its own evils with it hiring assassins, spies, etc.? but once again I feel like it's pointless to give it some sort of unnecessary depth that conflicts with the main point of establishing a democratic government that isnt bent on intergalactic terror to keep the piece.

Finally Vader felt awkward. He felt like an emperor rather than a subject of the emperor, with people grovelling to him, Vader having his own weird self-storage tube without his suit, and with people serving him left and right, even with Tarkin alive. The last scene felt especially awful just because it was a CG Vader hacking and slashing people and it just felt dead, compared to a real human in a black suit cutting people up in e4.