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"Odyssey: A Star Wars Story" is an American 12-minute live action short film from last year (2018) and as this was released in late October it is pretty much exactly a year old now, slightly over. And since then, it has scored approximately 1.5 million views, not too shabby for a fan film. Yes it is a fan film despite "a Star Wars Story" in the title, an addition that also resulted in Hollywood blockbusters lately. For this one, they had a budget of $15,000 and honestly what they made of that in terms of special effects, costumes etc. (basically everything technical) is admittedly really creative and convincing and I was a bit impressed by that. Sadly, it is just the shell really. The key is the story and this one is not really opening any doors. First of all, I struggled with this looking more like a military movie than a Star wars film at times, but maybe that is just me. Nonetheless, I wish they could have invested more money into a better writer and this could have turned out as a better film overall too. The director is Mark Alex Vogt, also the writer I assume, and he looks so young on his imdb profile photo that I am even more surprised this was not his first filmmaking effort. Anyway, for a fan movie I may have given 2 stars more, but by general standards, this is just a 4 out of 10 overall I would say. Still, given the man's age, the outcome is not too shabby. As for the cast: Of course there are no big name actors on here and the ones that we have here are okay overall, not too bad, not too good either. They really weren't as good as they needed to be to elevate the sub-par writing material here. The emotional father-son story also made almost zero impact on me sadly, although that's a subject I am generally fairly fond of when used in films. All in all, I say watch something else instead.