An Outstanding Picture(Bravo Bravo-Mr. Lucas)#6 on my all time list (Spoilers Imminent)

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2003)

Where do I begin. Let's start off with the slightest bit of flattery, AN OUTSTANDING FILM, GREAT ON ALL LEVELS, AND PULLS EVERYTHING OFF WITH AN AMAZING GRACE!!!!!! There, just had to get that out of the way. Now onto the review. George Lucas a writer and director with some nice critical praise for his film American Grafitti and some pretty big dreams/visions, comes along to Hollywood and this big company named 20th Century Fox and says he has written a script that he would like to direct into a film. They read the script and say sure go ahead and give him a modest budget and a nice huge crew to create this film. It takes at least a year and he finishes it and lets everyone that made it and they are satisfied with it.
BAM!!, it hits the world on May 25th, 1977 and it instantly becomes the biggest block-buster/money-maker this country/world has seen. In America it grosses a record 460 Million and worldwide a record 797 Million and it stays that way for many years. The film also won five Academy Awards and was nominated for Best Picture. It sparked a generation that to this day is known as the birth of sci-fi/fantasy film and basically just film. So what do I say to the film that has withstood it all. I say, "You deserve it and I honor your name."
Star Wars starts with a young boy Luke Skywalker(Mark Hamil) living on his ranch-like home on a desert planet called Tatooine with his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. It tells of how this young boy and his uncle buy these two droids(C-3PO and R2-D2) that end up changing Luke's life forever. When R2-D2 "runs" off in search of a man named Obi-Wan-Kenobi, Luke and C-3PO go looking for him. Saving the droid they run into non other than Obi-Wan himself. Obi-Wan convinces Luke that he is the son of a Jedi and destined to be one himself and that he must go with him to the planet Alderaan. Luke is reluctant to agree until his Aunt and Uncle are killed and he orphaned. It then tells of their journey through space with two pilots, one a human named Han-Solo and the other a furry alien named Chewbacca to Alderaan which is destroyed by the Evil Empire in an attempt to rule the Galaxy. In the end they are captured by the Empire and must fight to escape. Obi-Wan dies at the hand of his pupil Darth Vader and the others escape to freedom with a new Princess Leia. They regroup with the Intergalactic Rebellion Against the Empire and all but Han and Chewbacca are present in a humongous interstellar space battle against the Empire's Death Star to save the Rebellion and bring them one Step Closer to victory. Thanks to a surprise visit from Han they win and destroy the Death Star.
Alec Guiness as Obi-Wan is relevatory and beautifying along with a maybe a little over-the-top performance from Mark Hamil and Harisson Ford, but a right on key performance from Carrie Fisher helps balance it all out. The script is the whole key because without it some of the most memorable lines in movie history would not be here, and many things that were seen for the first time in this film are now parodied almost every day due to existence in Star Wars.
Star Wars is a grand and bold epic film which cannot be rivaled even till the end of time, and it sure was a start for cinema. It created the modern day block-buster. So in the end all I have to say is that the very limited few that havn't seen Star Wars yet see it. Your missing out on an American Pastime. I love how it used to be that this film used to always come on at five on a Sunday and then be followed by The Phantom Menace(even though a lesser sequel still great).
(5 out of 5 stars) (9.0 out of 10)