When you think of star wars, you think of lightsabers, flashing lights, lasers blasters, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Deathstars, battleships and more! When you think of Knightriders, you think of motorcycles, jousting, knights, Ed Harris, King Arthur and more! People, the excitement is all here and it manages to capture the essence that Star Wars intended more than Star Wars actually does! First think of the rebellion. The idea that a bunch of people are struggling to survive on what little resources they have and the different battle techniques they use which may be primitive compared to the great Empire. Now think of Knightriders and how these motorcycle knights had to gang up together and use what little resources they had to manage to survive in a world larger than them. This reflects the empire and its many henchmen struggling to capture and destroy them. The deathstar represents the hard work the empire put together just to destroy the rebellion. Now think of Knightriders and the hard work the world put together just to put down these motorcycle knights who just wanted to joust for a living. What ended up happening was their group split up and the characters had to re-group towards the end. This is what happened in Star Wars when Han Solo left the rebellion in the first movie in pursuit of money to pay off Jabba the Hutt. The comparisons between the two movies is astonishing! Am I saying that Knightriders is a rip-off of Star Wars? Definitely no, because saying so would be completely absurd. Knightriders is just a beautifully rendered edition of it and Romero does what Lucas could not. He has created a world in which people can joust freely on motorcycles with the same feeling of the Force from Star Wars. Lucas, eat your heart out! Romero, here we come!
Review of Knightriders
