Granger
Can't properly review this without spoilers, so I'll just point out the flick's two primary flaws:1- Considerably violent, no-punches-pulled kiling by Boba Fett, including scalping a wookie. If it was the director's goal to bring Star Wars down to gansta level, succeeded. While it wasn't "gory" per se... the killings were too intense to consider this "Star Wars" fare.2- Without spoiling the why when and what happens... completely illogical conflict between Boba Fett and Vader. Simply made no sense, did it.One additional bit... if you're a group of five Jedi (yet again) walking through a forest trying to avoid capture, then according to this story line: have your multi-color light sabers drawn and ON. There's no way that's going to call attention to yourselves-- at least no more than Times Square at midnight.Beyond that I'll not discuss plot line or logic flaws. Suffice to say this is a typical low-key fan film.
tjhonor
I may have a biased opinion, I am a fan the Star Wars World, not to the point of being a "Fan"addict, and feel fans need a representative review. Fearful Jedi on the Offensive, a Sith saying to an opponent, "Let go of your emotions" and a bounty hunter grabbing the business end of an elite guards weapon like a stick were just a few of the things that stood out prominently for this film short that pulled it down for me. I could continue on but I want to minimize the spoilers. I was slightly entertained and it is evident that there was thought put into the story, and I feel the fans should put in the effort to express their interpretation of a piece of the puzzle that is the Star Wars World.
Gerald Yu
Acting is bad.Directing is bad, because the storyline was hurried. Boba could so easily kill off many Jedi so quickly made no sense. In the SW films, neither Boba nor Jango could so easily kill any Jedi; the reverse is true. Remembering Baba had a comical silly death, the director exaggerated the abilities of Boba.The script is the worst part. It made no sense that the Jedi were fearful of a Mandalorian, that they chose to run rather than face an opponent. And a thermo detonator is hardly something that a Jedi need to run from.Reactions of Darth Vader also made no sense. Throughout Vader's career, he had basically been tolerating the incompetence of those who worked for him, until the breaking point where he killed them off and used the next in line. If Boba tried to pick a fight with a Sith, he should be dead, or at least get an arm chopped off (he can get a mechanical one just like everyone else).In this short film, the Jedi behaved like a Sith (fear), and the Sith behaved like a Jedi (respect the opponent). The script writer had one idea -- what if Vader and Boba fought? In order to get there, the writer abandoned the Star Wars logic and the natures of the characters.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
"Star Wars: Wrath of the Mandalorian" is a 12-minute short film from 7 years ago written and directed by Kelly Dolen. I think I can be a fairly neutral observer of the quality of this film here as I am far from what some people may consider a Star Wars fanboy who either loves or hates everything else that has to do with the subject apart from the original films. In any case, this one here includes many features from the films, such as the characters, the light saber fighting, the music..., but yet it comes really short in terms of delivering a convincing story around the apparently legendary Mandalorian. And apart from that, it does look more amateurish at times than it should, even for a fan movie. All in all, not recommended.
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