Star Was

Rating: 9/10 (24 August 2013)

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (originally released as just "Star Wars") is a masterpiece.
Although the plot of the film is so simple that it almost hurts, it is brilliantly executed.
It's a hero's journey in which the main character, Luke Skywalker, starts his adventures and finds himself in the middle of something bigger than he ever imagined. It is his story. Unfortunately, Luke's story tends to diminish the other character's stories in the first Star Wars trilogy. It's quite acceptable in this film, because Leia is the only character who really suffers from that (her non-reaction and non-follow-up on Alderaan's destruction is a shame). Sadly, this got even with with the next two films.
Star Wars was a technical breakthrough and is in some ways still the best of all the Star Wars films.
9 stars.