Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV Series) Bounty Hunters (2010) User Reviews

Kurosawa Tribute

[A_Kind_Of_CineMagic · 8/10 · 12 May 2020]

This episode is a tribute to great director Akira Kurosawa whose work was so influential on George Lucas. Hidden Fortress by Kurosawa was particularly influential on the original Star Wars and here we get a homage to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai which has famously been remade as western The Magnificent Seven a couple of times as well as numerous other adaptations.

Here it is the Jedi and bounty hunters defending farmers from space pirates. It is a nice little adventure, nothing overly special but very entertaining.

My rating: 8/10

The Clone Wars Meets the Magnificent 7/7 Samurai / The Three Amigos

[mkelly54 · 8/10 · 21 June 2021]

This is a nice episode, with a plot similar to the Magnificent 7 / the 7 Samurai and the Three Amigos. Good action sequences with the rivalry between Obi-Wan and Anakin and Hondo the Pirate riding again.

Bounty Hunters

[lassegalsgaard · 7/10 · 21 February 2021]

As someone who loves Akira Kurosawa, I think this episode was a nice little adventure that honored one of his greatest cinematic achievements. It fits straight into the "Star Wars" world (which is why they also did it in "The Mandalorian"), and all the characters fit their roles perfectly as the mentors for this small town. Hondo returns after his appearance in the first season and he is as enjoyable as he has always been, with his dialogue being really funny. The episode did not necessarily feel like it belongs in the show, but I am happy that it is there. It was entertaining and did a great job of honoring one of the greatest filmmakers to have ever lived. I am, however, glad that we go back to more important storylines in the coming episodes.

Who writes these reviews?

[goldo-35619 · 9/10 · 13 January 2021]

Somebody really came on here and said the idea of training innocent villagers didn't feel fresh because The Mandalorian did it. Uhhh what? Madalorian started 2019, this is a 2010 episode lol pay attention if you're going to write reviews.

On the other hand, I actually really liked this episode. The new characters were fun to watch, didn't feel like it added to much to overall story but great filler episode. 9/10

Hondo.

[denist_tct · 10/10 · 21 January 2021]

All it takes for a perfect Clone Wars episode are two ingredients: 1. Hondo 2. Kenobi

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A tribute to Kurosawa?

[theoledoux · 8/10 · 10 November 2020]

A title pops up before the intro- a tribute to Kurosawa. Did it really honour his work? Well, I believe it did just enough as a 20min tribute to a legendary director. Honestly, I'm not too familiar with his work but I got the 7 samurai reference. The whole "training innocent villagers to defend themselves" has been done very recently in the Mandalorian so this didn't feel new at all. Fun episode regardless!

Akira Kurosawa's 7 Samurai

[ZeTomes · 5/10 · 7 July 2012]

I would enjoy this episode if I hadn't seen Akira Kurosawa's 7 Samurai ( Shichinin no samurai), if I didn't notice that several episodes are pastiches of other classics as this one, if I hadn't confirmed that many episodes are what we call in Portuguese "encher (fill) chouriços (sort of sausage)", metaphorically meaning to fill something just for the appearances. As a 4 years old veteran fan of the original theatrical Star Wars, my heart was broke when the new episodes came to cinema, when noticing my imagination created from the missing links of the original story were filled as I said, as a "chouriço" with pastiches of other movies. It's not a Tarantino's recycling geniality, it's the inability of creating a strong plot in dedication to the genial original Star Wars storytelling what was missing from the original beautiful and old Greece mythological and Freudian story. Perhaps for the young jedi fans it seems innovative, but for this old jedi the force isn't indeed with the cloak of the new special effects.

Philosophically Does Not Live Up to Its Potential

[thegreendrinker · 5/10 · 9 February 2024]

Many of the reviews have mentioned the Kurosawa reference and it is true that this does have the basic structure of The Seven Samurai. Unfortunately, the build up to the bandits attacking the town lacks suspense. The episode does nothing to convince the audience that maybe Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka are finally over their heads. In fact, they have handily beaten the same mercenaries before! The battle itself is resolved quickly which makes it nothing to write home about.

My biggest disappointment is that The Clone Wars once again brings up an interesting moral dilemma and then throws it away for a much more boring and predictable plotline. I love the following exchange in the middle of the episode: Anakin (to the bounty hunters protecting the farmers)- I'm sure you are good at what you do, but you are in way too deep Bounty Hunter- Says the peacekeeper who fails to keep the peace Kenobi- The rift in the galaxy is not our fault. If more worlds would stand up for themselves against the Separatists, this war would have been over long ago.

This exchange reveals an interesting aspect of Obi-Wan's character which is that he partially blames innocent worlds for not fighting back. This also makes Obi-Wan seem like kind of an ignorant, arrogant jerk. Many ordinary people do not have the time and resources to resist a heavily militarized invasion. How many farmers submitted to the Separatists to protect their families and move on with their lives? Is it cowardly to not want to essentially commit suicide by taking on a force much stronger than your own? That the village could be trained enough to take on thugs in one day is not realistic at all and the fact that it costs Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka nothing to stay and help dodges holding Obi-Wan accountable for his ideology. At the end of the day, there are no consequences one way or another to Obi-Wan looking down at defenseless peasants. It makes Obi-Wan feel out of touch, but I was disappointed that the episode did not commit to the logical end result of that ideology. (I am not saying Obi-Wan needed to be punished but that either he should change his mind and change OR the villagers should suffer from his lack of intervention, but with perhaps the ambiguity that it was perhaps for the greater good. Something along these lines).