Star Wars: Wrath of the Mandalorian (2008 Video) User Reviews

Violent and lacking logic

[Snootz · 3/10 · 13 January 2018]

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.

Not a worthy addition

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 3 September 2015]

"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.

Was Truly a Backwards Day

[tjhonor · 4/10 · 27 December 2015]

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.

What a piece of junk!

[mpost-62477 · 1/10 · 23 May 2016]

I've seen a lot of bad fan films based on / inspired by Star Wars. Most are awful; cheap-looking with horrible acting and effects. This one is no different, but it commits the added offense of completely ignoring characterization. The Jedi, Boba Fett, and Darth Vader all have their own personality (yes, the Jedi as a whole have a characterization because, except for a few, they have no personality outside of the singularity of being a Jedi). It's one thing to have your own vision, but it's quite another to decide you're going to completely re-write who the characters are because it gets you from your Point A to your Point B more easily.

The number one rule of adapting someone else's work is allow the characters to stay true to themselves. When people complain about actions being "out of character" that's what they're complaining about. For example, you don't have Indiana Jones suddenly decide he's religious or a wuss. Both would spit in the face of the character as they'd been written. That is the major offense of the fan film: the only-works-alone Fett leading a trooper unit to hunt Jedi, the highly emotional Vader telling Fett to stop being emotional, the stoic-in-the-face-of-death Jedi shown running scared from everything around them. These are all situations and scenes from this fan film written with a complete disregard for the characters and who they are. Whomever did this wanted to show Boba Fett fight Darth Vader; they got to do that which appears was the only thing that matter to them, characterization be damned.

Why is this crap in IMDb?

[dnthieds · 1/10 · 29 December 2019]

It's someone's home movie in cosplay. It is cluttering up searches for Star Wars content. If I film some rubbish with my friends will I get on IMDb too?

The script is the worst part

[geraldyu · 1/10 · 5 October 2015]

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.

The story is good but the acting and effects are ruining

[leomilan · 5/10 · 3 October 2015]

The story was interesting seeing Boba Fett work for Darth Vader after the events of clone wars and I wouldn't mind seeing that story as a animated movie or TV show or even a stand alone Star Wars movie. The problem with Star Wars: Wrath of the Mandalorian was just the acting and the effects.

When the characters started talking I started breaking into laughter seeing how bad they were and the effects were not on point. For a fan made short film, Star Wars: Wrath of the Mandalorian had pretty good effects such as the light savers but the back grounds and walkers were not good.

Overall I wouldn't mind watching a animated version of this because the idea itself was great and I really like Boba Fett so this wasn't a terrible thing.

IP Theft

[dsmith1868-1 · 1/10 · 18 December 2019]

I still don't understand how the theft of IP (intellectual property) is promoted. Make your own stuff and stop violating copyrighted material. You are thieves, plain and simple.

Just skip the first 7 minutes

[graymonsuta · 5/10 · 7 December 2019]

The first 7 minutes shows Boba Fett killing jedi knights and one jedi master, but all of them have the level of padawans. None of them can even defend themselves with a light saber properly. Boba killed them all including the jedi master, and the sad part is that Jedi Master Karis was supposed to be the best out of all them. Maybe that's why he had padawan level jedi knights with him, to be used as a sacrifice. Go figure! The last scene is when Boba Fett flys to the Death Star and fights Darth Vader, which is the best scene of this fan film. Boba Fett even used a green light saber to fight Darth Vader. The sad part is he did a better job in a light saber duel than all the jedi in the film, and he's a bounty hunter. If you wanna watch this film, please skip the first 7 minutes if you know what's good for you and thank me later. May the force be with you!

well,

[paradiddle16 · 3/10 · 15 February 2018]

Started nice but then the acting and script ruined it. From watching this we can deduce that the Jedi are complete morons/weaklings and look like a bunch of geeks.

A blinded Han Solo kills Boba Fett in ROTJ and gets easily captured by Dartth Vader in Empire strikes back. But in this movie Boba Fett almost kicks Darth Vader's arse.

Cool Fan-Made Movie

[MrsFett · 9/10 · 20 November 2020]

As a Star Wars fan, I really enjoyed this short film. For it being only 12 minutes, they made it really interesting and included a lot of fan service. I could only find it on YouTube but I think it's worth the watch.

good

[veidemanisroberts · 9/10 · 6 February 2021]

Effects are the only bad part of the movie/video they look bad and very fake but everything else in not bad