Tatooine Sunset

Rating: 9/10 (20 May 2005)

Of course everybody know what happened. Naturally no one is surprised by the facts. But the ways are surprising, amazing, and a masterpiece for any cinema lover. How to tell a known story and get all people sticked to their seats? Lucas did it!
I remember when I was fourteen and I saw "A new hope". I got caught by Tatoonie sunset and that heart-breaking music. In that moment I realized I was looking to a hero, a man who took the right way without knowing were that path was going to.
Twenty years after, I could see his father taking the same decision in the same place under the same sunset. But he was wrong, he was moved by arrogance his mighty power granted him. These are the seeds of the darkness in any known world. Same decision, opposite result.
And at the end of the journey, Lucas reward us with the perfect ending under the same Tatooine sunset and the same music that makes the people to choose to serve the Sith or obey the Jedi code.
And, oh, I forgot them, there are several high level space battles and fantastic light-saber duels, a very evil robo-Jedi and hundreds of wookies, senator Organia, young Tarkin, old Palpatine, a death star, Luke and Leya, Beru, C3PO, R2, a volcano, Dooku, imperial bodyguards, Yoda, Kenobi, the old fashioned star destroyers, and trendy CG effects.
But that Tatooine sunset will remain forever in the best shots ever seen at cinemas, together with the death of Roy Batty, HALL shutdown, the Rohirrim charge and a few more.
Thank-you George. You really did know what the film was about.