The Perfect Adventure

Rating: 9/10 (5 January 2020)

It's as classic a story as has ever been told yet somehow Hope makes you feel like you're hearing it for the first time, with a host of characters that feel so familiar and close to our hearts as an audience as to make them feel like old friends we revisit with each viewing. But beyond that there is a level of passion in the way the film is crafted that is seldom seen in modern movie-making, as though the story of a band of freedom fighters battling a nigh indomitable foe also reflects that of a man with a dream to tell that story in an age before computers made film-making so much easier; and though it may feel like the most self-contained of the saga, it represents the humble beginnings of one of cinemas greatest franchises.