I really enjoyed R1 apart from a couple of minor issues after my first viewing at the cinemas and just watched it again for a second time the other night at home on the TV while trying to manually modulate the volume to a low but audible level so as not to wake my daughter up in the next room. Despite the less than ideal viewing and listening conditions I found myself enjoying R1 even more than I did the first time and look forward to viewing it again once I get a HD projector and proper Hi-Fi audio system.

I think the main characters could have been fleshed out a bit more but I still think it’s a great movie anyway, one that actually adds a lot more detail and depth to the OT SW universe (without being in your face) with a little more grounding and stylised realism. It’s great for a change that there are no Jedi around to conveniently save the day. I also didn’t mind that it broke away a bit from the usual SW format / formula with no crawl, using location cards, etc. It is afterall a “SW Story” rather than a SW movie so to speak, instead showing a story from a different perspective rather than the usual episodic saga movie.

.Val