Look, this movie has some bizarre pacing, cute albeit entirely unnecessary callbacks to previous films, way too many characters to balance (very funny for the character you gave nothing to do to say out loud "there's nothing for me to do"), and a general unmistakable sense that they did not plan out what to do next before finishing the previous film.

BUT the climax was one of the most insane things I've ever seen onscreen and it made my palms…

I think what ultimately prevents the magnificent Andor from elevating the installment it leads into, whereas something like Clone Wars did wonders for heightening the tragedy of Revenge of the Sith, is the fact that this film simply does not hinge on Cassian as a character the way Sith hinges on Anakin. Sure, I got more emotional at Cassian's fate in this film knowing the full context of his life, but before you get to that (and the ittedly still…