The Vorzyd Gambit was the fifth and final Dastoli Digital Star Wars fanfilm. It stars Robert Dastoli as Torr Brelrunner, a Jedi Knight who calls in his trader brother, Deckand Brelrunner (James Dastoli), to help him bring down Baron Tremenus Kof (Mike Harris), who is essentially Mr. Downtown as an insider trading space tyrant.

This movie was made pretty much the same way as Every Man Has His Price, except this time, the blue screened digital-or-CGI backgrounds actually look halfway decent. This is one of the most incredible things ever made by high schoolers in their computer room at home. The effects are so breathtaking, you'll hardly notice the almost exclusively incorrect eyelines between every character. But I guess my biggest complaint about this, the last of their Star Wars fanfilms, is that James and Robert put in a lightsaber, but the plot never calls for a lightsaber fight. Back in my review for Crossing of Fate (which originally featured a climactic saber duel that was subsequently cut), James rates it as his number one regret that they never did a lightsaber fight. And they will confirm that not a day goes by in which I don't masterfully slip the idea of a Crossing of Fate Special Edition into regular conversation. Sometimes I even allude to it in reviews to completely unrelated Dastoli Digital shorts about cars exploding. But my point here is that there's something tragic about static shots of characters shooting laser guns back and forth, and one of the characters is deflecting those lasers by twirling around a lightsaber, but nobody else in the room has a lightsaber, so they just keep shooting at him until they all die. The visual effects are great, but even the Discovery Channel-style slapfights in Smiert Spionam were more thrilling than this.

They also cast a girl with pink hair and piercings, because they couldn't otherwise afford to put in any real aliens. I consider this to be their most awesome creative shortcut.

I am only left with one question about the story. Torr and Deck are brothers, but only Torr is a Jedi Knight. Why doesn't Deck become a Jedi also? He must have a comparable amount of Force-friendly midichlorians in his system, because they share the same DNA. He should at least develop his Jedi abilities, then use them for personal gain. His brother would probably let him crash at his place for a while. Or he could sleep in his gigantic spaceship.

Here is what the Dastolis have to say about The Vorzyd Gambit:

ROBERT:

"In the same vein that the structures of our action films can be traced back to Smiert Spionam, The Vorzyd Gambit has many similarities to Respectable Employ. Clearly we wanted another shot at the Coruscant arrival opening, as well as the shootout, and Deak Ross and Deckand Brelrunner are basically the same character. In fact, we joke that Deckand is Deak's father and that he had to change his Jedi-bloodline name to Ross during Palpatine's purge."

JAMES:

"One of the greatest things about The Vorzyd Gambit was that we took a locale that existed in a 1979 comic strip, and recreated it in CG. That was just as exciting to do as Coruscant."

James here is referring either to the Outer Rim gambler's planet Vorzyd V, or that little balcony where he makes pleasantries with his brother. As far as I know, they made that balcony up.