I saw it tonight, definitely better than The Force Awakens (for me that's not hard to do though) but not quite as amazing as I was hoping. As others said, the CGI for Tarkin was a bit off (I think they made his face move more than it should have, I assume to try and make it look more real, but it just made it look more fake). Everyone seems a lot more familiar with the Force than they are in the later films as well.
The flashbacks were new but didn't seem to out of place, I assume they were to try to make you connect more with Jin but that's hard to do when you know from the get-go she isn't in the following films. The Empire having control panels in random places was a bit odd (lets place the switch in the middle of a beach, and the reset button on some overhanging ledge for no reason), as well as the way the "tapes" were accessed. You have to manually control the retrieval of the tape, that's on an extremely long column that you can only see a short section of? What the hell do they do if it's on the other side of the column 10 stories down?
I also can't decide if the ending was good or whether it was the result of someone remembering at the last second how Episode IV starts. Bearing in mind this whole movie sort of falls apart just from the first words Vader says in Ep 4.
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Originally Posted by Vader
Where are those transmissions you intercepted?
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Except in this, they didn't "intercept" anything, the plans were sent directly to them.
Onto the stuff I did like, I loved how they tied in small things from the original films without making it really obvious and forced. Things like the beeps from the little Empire droid that was on the Death Star in 4, the appearance of Mon Mothma, the mention of Wedge, those glass panels with the lit up lines (seriously wtf are those things for?), the guy with the scanner on Yavin.
The combat sequences were a lot easier to follow, and the mix of familiar ships with new ones made it a lot smoother (and the designs actually seem similar in style, not like the sudden difference in TFA). The funny parts were actually funny and not forced, they did that fairly well in TFA as well but ep 2 and 3 were pretty cringey so it was nice to see. The characters accents actually matched them as well, people who grew up barely scraping by on a backwater planet speaking with a crisp accent in TFA really put me off.
All in all, nothing that blew me away but most likely something I'll add into a Star Wars marathon (The Force Awakens sure as hell won't be).