A Simplistic Classic

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2020)

This film is a very low 9. This film was absolutely astounding in it's day and in my opinion one of the best film ever made when it first came out, but nowadays it's like an old beat up boxer that can't compete with a lot of the top young fresh boxers. The lightsaber duel was kinda pathetic compared to the more recent lightsaber duels. There was some emotion in it, I'll give it that but other than that the lightsaber duel felt like a rather serious insult to Vader and Kenobi's actual power and made them seem like regular humans. I was also disappointed that the lightsaber duel didn't have hardly any references to the Prequels when they were fighting.
Special effects still stack up well to this day in some aspects, especially the space scenes. There weren't many great characters either, there were some great characters but compared to some of the other films they aren't that many. I've never been a big fan of Chewbacca or Princess Leia, I think Chewbacca was a rather useless character and a waste of screen time, there's no point in having a character in a movie when you can't understand it 95% of the time and all it does is shoot things (not in a very unique way at all) and growl.
The plot was rather simplistic, not very complex and generally speaking films with simple plots aren't very thought-provoking and doesn't give you much to deeply think about and for me the more complex a film is generally the better it is because it gives you more stuff to think about during the film and after the film, not just complexity of the plot but also interesting characters you can connect to a lot as well. Overall this film is a simple classic, a very good film but far from the best.