Good although not as great as Episode VI

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2006)

So much for Princess Leia being entrapped by the Imperial Senate as well as the dreaded sith known as Vader. The most striking beginning of this Episode IV movie was in the height of the very first attack between rebel forces and Storm Troopers, where Princess Leia inserts the CD right in the mouth of the famous droid R2-D2.
The CD contains clear outlays of the Imperial battle station, which is sometimes called the "space station."
She does that in time, just before she is knocked out temporarily by one Storm Trooper.
In another scene when Leia is forced to reveal the secret base, that flying contraption that seems like a space-age soccer ball was the intimidator as it hovered in front of her. I had speculated that failure to reveal would mean that ball will zap her with electric shocks.
The midpoint of the flick, of course, was when Sith Vader ordered Alderan to be destroyed. I realized that it was true after watching Episode III of Star Wars, "Revenge of the Sith", where I had seen fire and volcanic lava on that planet, when Order 66 was made by Anakin Skywalker to wipe out the Jedi knights on the planet. And it was Anakin who turned to the "dark side" and became Darth Vader in the first place.
The battle scene between the rebel freighter and the four Imperial tie fighters was something. This was akin to the same space battle seen in "The Last Starfighter"....because in both movies, of the difficulty of tracing the guns to the enemy targets that sometimes go quite fast.
The final part of the movie was scary....Princess Leia seeing the indicator at the rebel moon that the Death Star would destroy the rebel moon in minutes...as soon as the rebel force started the mission to knock out the enemy space station. With Carrie Fisher playing Leia, I had seen the fear in her eyes....She already had witnessed the fearful firepower of this station....and she knows that Vader will use it against her. Of course, when Luke finally knocked out the station, all of the fears within Leia just wiped away....