There seems to be a Star Wars fan film production that tops themselves every year. Revelations is the latest star wars fan film that brings the best production values seen yet. It even has TWO DVDs to be downloaded via BitTorrent.

It features two staples of Star Wars fan films: A space battle with imperial TIE Fighters and lightsaber duels between Jedi. The first part is the most impressive with the its scope and its SFX achievements considering its limited production resources, with growing technical and computing powers. The second light part is little disappointing that actors don't seem to be comfortable with yielding lightsabers. The story makes sense, some characters are little wooden, the lighting is dark to view things clearly, but overall, admirable achievement.

3 years of dedicated hard works and maxing out credit cards--sounds like an indie production model that we heard so many times, but I can't help wonder if they exploited their resources to develop original IP than a fan film of established IP, they would gotten more out of it--possibly some money from distribution and sales of DVDs. Then again, the creators would not gotten the fans backing, would've cost more to get more production values on the screen, and limited exposure being new IP.

The film credit runs long, displaying the dedicated & hardworking fan base for this beloved series. If and only upcoming Episode III can close the lackluster prequel trilogy with a bang, the fans will be making more fan films to years to come.