All (first) three episodes in one and more!

Rating: 5/10 (24 November 2011)

So, what did we get from Mr. Lucas here? For starters, this is by no means SF (it has fiction, although no science). It is just a soap kitschy opera consisting of bad writing, even worse directing, questionable casting and terrible acting. If you watch the Bluray version, this is even more obvious (should have stayed VHS-blurred, just to hide sloppy sfx). Expensive in making, cheap in perceiving. On the other hand, it's a fairy tale (with no moral whatsoever) for people who never grew up and would swallow anything with even a slightest SF-odor. They would never even notice (or object to) sound and smoke in open space, instantaneous audio-visual communication across parsecs, thrusters that behave like warp drive and other "scientific" nonsense. They would just pack up with beer and popcorn, sit back, relax and enjoy. Faced with the possibility (danger?) of watching these three movies (one after another for about 6 hours), that's also what you should do. And remember to switch off all higher brain functions if you don't want to get hurt.