Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - EMC's Review

Rating: Null/10 (7 March 2015)

Originally titled "Star Wars", and before all the questionable special edition changes... This masterpiece graced our silver screens in 1977. Star Wars!!! The movie had dark thoughts surrounding it, would it be a major flop, this was thought by all who were part of the production, but this darkness ended, when it became the second highest grossing film in America, and one of the worlds most cherished motion pictures. It was a monument of its time showing off its impressive special effects and neat space battles.... The plot center's twenty years since the the great Jedi Purge when a rebellion against the Empire has begun under the control of the beautiful Princess Leia Organa, daughter of Anakin and Padme Skywalker. Far out on Tatooine lives the new hope of the galaxy in the form of Luke Skywalker, a moisture farmer on the other side of Mos Eisley, watched over by Ben Kenobi who has great plans for him. This fourth chapter, chronologically, in the Star Wars Saga remains in all our hearts with such iconic characters like Han Solo, played greatly by Harrison Ford, Chewbacca and Darth Vader. Almost every shot and line of the film is engraved in our memory as we look back on the film as one of our childhoods' ultimate adventure movies. Though when watched with the rest of the Star Wars movies it remains certain that most of the plot twists in further films were never meant to be. This film's just basically a war in outer space somewhere, and the clichéd story of how a farm boy becomes the hero, saving the princess and defeating evil. For these reasons, we've ranked it just ahead of The Phantom Menace making it fifth. Its sometimes boring pacing and dated dialog stands out at points, though we must never forget how this film impacted cinema and sci-fi for generations. The light saber duel is slow, with unmemorable choreography, though is emotional at the end. It's a great film but compare to the next two falls just a bit short....