Old Movie, New Hope

Rating: 7/10 (22 April 2005)

Few times in the history of movies has a film reached so many people and been loved by generations, only to later spawn another set of movies telling the tale leading up to it. I am of course, badly or not, describing the 1977 hit that was brought to us by George Lucas later re-titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and we are brought to Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Han Salo (Harrison Ford, Princess Leiah (Carrie Fisher), Obi Wan Kanobi (Alec Guiness) and of course the most feared man in the galaxy Darth Vader (acted by David Prowse voiced by James Earl Jones). In search of the remainders of a rebellion Vader leads his crew to many places, leaving no one alive except for one person. The empires army (stormtroopers) are able to capture and take into custody Princess Leiah, a woman they are sure is one of the leaders of the rebellion against the Empire and it's Dark Lord Vader. Leiah however is able to get a message away from her ship, programmed into a small android named R2D2. Together with C3PO they escape the ship and land on a desolate planet in search of a man that no-one seems to know Obi-Wan Kanobi. Picked up by scavengers and eventually bought by Owen (Luke's uncle) they find themselves being traced by the stormtroopers who will stop at nothing to catch them. Also introducing Han Salo and his partner Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) along with many other weird and wonderful alien creatures, Star Wars was always going to be big, even now some of the action and events look amazing, light saber fights that still enlightens and excites even the youngest of Star Wars fans.
George Lucas hit it big with A New Hope and that will only continue with the latest that is Revenge of the Sith as it did with Empire, Jedi, Menace and Clones.