What's the verdict on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story?

Liked:

the architecture and detail of the planets, cities and bases, etc.
the script is better than A New Hope. Somewhat suspenseful, and kept me invested until the end credits.

Disliked:
Felicity Jones was stiff as a board and often had a dumb expression on her face.
The Cushing and Fisher CGI was unconvincing. I always knew I was looking at animation.

The visuals and special effects were first-rate. The scene with Vader at the end was by far the most compelling. The rest of the movie was a total waste of time and effort. The problem wasn't just in the writing of these characters, it was in the acting. Fortunately, many of these characters were killed off. I give it a 4/10.

My favourite Star Wars since Empire Strikes Back. And thazz quite the compliment

Exactly that

Good movie the 4th best Star Wars movie after IV, V and VI

6.5/10
Average movie with a killer final 1/2 hour. It was perhaps the most beautifully shot movie of the entire saga, and did have a more war-like feel to it than any of the others. But I really didn't find any of the characters compelling enough to care about their fates, and CGI Tarkin and Leia were abominations, as @nxnwrocks already stated.

I will admit though that I've found every movie since Empire disappointing, so I'm probably not the best one to critique any of them at this point.

Decent movie, poorly written characters, didn't really dovetail into ANH as well as it should have.

I thought it suffered from all the unnecessary fan service.

Ballsy to kill everyone off at the end, though. I like that it took that chance.

Overall maybe a 6.5/10.

I was let down a bit by "The Force Awakens." I didn't mind the protagonists, but Kylo Ren just didn't do anything for me. Still, none of the characters were very memorable and I got tired of this focus on the force. I could buy it with the original trilogy and even in the prequels, but without Luke (though he makes an appearance), Obi-Wan, Yoda, the Emperor...I don't know, the force just didn't seem as real.

"Rogue One" however, I thought was great. It suffered from vague characters (with the exception of Ben Mendelsohn's white-caped villain, who's terrific). In spite of that, it was a lot of the things I was hoping TFA would be, though TFA suffered from a lot of underdeveloped characters as well...seems hard to make a "Star Wars" movie on par with the originals. The originals had a huge universe, groundbreaking (for the time) visuals, but great characters (even if their dialogue was a bit funny at times). The new ones don't do this so well.

I'd give like one and a half thumbs up to "Rogue One." They did some great things with the space battles, and even just seeing the Star Destroyer hovering over the desert town in the daylight was awesome. I liked getting a break from the Jedi element and focusing more on the war and other things happening in this universe. The darker tone was great, and when our friend in black shows up (don't want to spoil it)...holy crap!

I will say I missed John Williams' themes and the traditional story crawl, but I can move past that. Thought it was a really good movie overall.

I think it's just okay. The film looks amazing. Has some great action. But it's weak elements I feel are plot and character.