My theater companion neither saw the original nor expected to see a computer-generated character, so she didn’t even notice anything was amiss-until I told her and ruined it. One’s reaction to the reanimated Cushing likely depends on two things: Whether or not you’ve seen the original Star Wars films, and whether you knew Tarkin would appear in Rogue One before seeing it. But Tarkin is a major character in the film, and I found it impossible to pay attention to anything it was saying as I tried to wrap my head around what exactly I was looking at. Used sparingly (as with a CG-rejuvenated youthful version of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia), it might not have been so distracting. It is the very definition of the uncanny valley-an unsettling, artificial humanoid plopped down right in the middle of scenes with actual human actors. Its voice, performed by a mimic, sounds only vaguely like Cushing’s did. Its mouth does not move as a human’s mouth should. Personally, I found the character to be a monstrosity.
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