A Great Adventure!

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2003)

Before special effects movies like "Jurassic Park," "The Lord of the Rings," and "The Matrix" sagas become something of a phenomenon where their works were in CGI (Computer Graphic Imagery), George Lucas introduced us to something never done before in the history of cinema. Though I wasn't born in May of 1977 when the film first premiered, twenty years later when I was in the seventh grade, I forced my older brother to take me out with his girlfriend and her brother and sister and see a movie together, and the Star Wars Trilogy were the movies indeed at Northwest Theater.
"Star Wars" is something out of the ordinary where after the 20th Century Fox logo, we see the movie logo appear on screen before us with the music of John Williams blasting its way to the screen and reading the situation of what's happening in the film. The film begins with a ship of rebels carrying Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) on their way to Alderine where a ship behind them is attacking them with lasers; a duel laser fight as the rebel ship is being invaded with storm troopers killing off the soldiers as Darth Vader, (David Prowse in costume with James Earl Jones's voice) a man with a black helmet and overalls for which his presence is meant to scare all of us (and yet he remains a classic with people of all ages and personalities). He wants the plans to Alderine as he holds Princess Leia hostage while her two droids C-3PO and R2-D2 have escaped on the pod taking them to another planet called Tatooine where they are slaves to Jawa's (aliens who own a pawn shop full of robots) until a young farm boy named Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and his Uncle Owen decide to buy the droids and use them.
With great ambitions, Luke wants to train in the fleet academy where many rebel pilots are trained and fly X-Wing's. But his Uncle and Aunt refuse because there aren't enough people to work on the farm, leaving Luke in disappointment. He has heard rumors about Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Jedi Knights who protected the galaxy at one point, but Kenobi has never came out of his shell and is tired of hearing stories, even about his father who served as a Jedi Knight.
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) shows himself when spies attack Luke and C-3PO after losing R2-D2. Obi-Wan tells Luke about the Jedi Knights and how they protected most of the galaxies in the world; even shows Luke a light saber, an energy sword with a light as the blade that can cut through any objects from walls to human flesh. Luke even finds out about his father being in the Jedi before he turned to the dark side.
Luke, Obi-Wan and the droids return to Uncle Owen's house where his uncle, aunt, the townspeople and the Jawa's are dead and is revealed that anybody who talked to R2 and C-3PO were eliminated. With nobody left in his family, Luke and the droids join Obi-Wan where they head into the town of Tatooine where it's full of gamblers, mercenaries, everything people consider 'evil.' But in order to get out of Tatooine and make it to Alderine, Luke and Obi-Wan must confront a mercenary by the name of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in which Luke has to sell his speeder to get the money; so now as all of them go to Han's Millennium Falcon, the storm troopers and other spies have a head out for Solo for which they leave the city of Tatooine and escape into outer space for which where they were heading doesn't exist anymore as Darth Vader's ship, the Death Star, is the only thing in space where the Falcon automatically goes in.
It is where they catch up with Princess Leia and rescue her while they try to escape as Obi-Wan duels with Vader in which Obi-Wan dies as he disappears leaving Luke abandoned. It is now up to Luke, Han, and the Princess to join the rebel scouts in order to defeat the Death Star and save the planets from destruction.
"Star Wars" is one of the greatest adventures ever made with a hero destined with dreams, a mercenary with a chip on his shoulder and great characters to which people will always make references about them and talk about the greatest moments of this film.