"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

Rating: 9/10 (10 February 2019)

Right from an amazing, quite epic opening where after the 20th Century Fox fanfare we are introduced with the STAR WARS logo rocketing through space. What follows is a crawl giving you the viewer some small needed information before watching the film. I do believe it is quite ingenious and ever since whenever it happens in other humorous films you know exactly what they are parodying.
While I was not even alive when the original STAR WARS film came out, I did see it in the mid-80s and was always a fan of the original three STAR WARS films. Back in 1977 writer/director George Lucas created what is now a cash cow of an idea coming from a galaxy far, far away. This film is really quite amazing in showing both imagination in storytelling and innovations in effects.
If you are one who has not seen the film yet, while this is the fourth installment in these series of films, I actually would suggest watching this one first.
Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) has the secret plans to destroy the Death Star, which is a new operational massive space station run by the evil Empire. Darth Vader (body of David Prowse, voice of James Earl Jones) is on a death hunt in search of these plans. Leia has put them into a machine or a droid named R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) who with another droid named C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) must go search for Obi-Wan Kenobi (well played by Alec Guinness) to assist in this fight against the Empire. In addition a young farmer who dreams of joining the Rebel Alliance named Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), a cocky smuggler named Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his gigantic, hairy co-pilot named Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) also join in on the fight.
I think of this film as almost like a western set in space. Meshed with one of the greatest scores of all time by John Williams that gets images flying through my mind when I hear it. I truly believe the original deserves all the acclaim it has received. Now, there are a few things that are negative about the film. One would be while there are some excellent lines of dialogue some of it though comes across as clunky to me. In addition back in the late 90s Lucas went over the originals and added some new effects to them. Really in my mind freshening up the effects was an excellent idea, but adding new scenes didn't really work for me. One in particular with a CGI Jabba the Hutt that just doesn't work, even though you do get a glimpse of Boba Fett.
Also starring horror legend Peter Cushing as big baddie Grand Moff Tarkin. Like every role I have seen him in he does quite a good job.
The likes of Rick Baker (worked on AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON), Rob Bottin (THE THING) both worked in the make-up department and Dan O'Bannon (who co-wrote the original ALIEN script) worked on the visual effects crew for this film.
Anyways, I give it a strong 9 out of 10 and would suggest to anyone who likes a little adventure as this film is filled with it. Followed by numerous sequels, which almost all are at least worth giving a watch.