Awesome

Rating: 9/10 (7 September 2005)

Before i start i would like to make clear that i was one of these weird people that ordered their tickets two months in advance to see this film, i even went to a cinema about 10 miles away from my nearest one because the showing was an hour earlier! So you can tell i had very high hopes. I sat down, stomach churning, i was so excited, and when the familiar music blasted through the speakers i could barley hold it in, wow, three years of waiting were about to end, it was here! To be honest the film was over in what seemed like seconds, it was over whelming, the only thing that made me know that i HAD been sitting there for 2 and a half hours, was the numbness in my non facial cheeks! The movie was near perfect, i sat through the film crossing my fingers praying that George Lucas hadn't written in any cheesy lines or embarrassingly weird moments between certain characters, then right at the end i was just beginning to think yes he's done it, there was no cheesiness, he had avoided awkwardness, the dialogue, the action was perfect. But then, as i was just about to say it was perfect, it happened..."NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO". NOOOO indeed Darth, disaster, i cringed at the cheesiness and put my head in my hands, wtf was this. I mean i can totally understand why he did it, Anakin had only JUST become Darth and he still had warm fuzzy feelings for Padme, that's fair enough. But i do believe that Mr Lucas could have come up with a slightly less cringe worthy way of saying that Anakin was majorly upset. Any way, I've had my little chew at the movie; i can't condemn it to the pits of Hell for about 7 seconds of footage. The film otherwise as i said was perfect, it was visually pleasing, the computer graphics were phenomenal. The acting of the entire cast was breath taking, Hayden Christenson had lost the unnaturalness in his acting that appeared in the previous film and was portraying emotion and feeling like he meant it. Natalie Portman was even better than she had been in the previous two films, which i find to be nearly impossible as she was perfect in the previous, i guess you can improve on perfection. She also managed to bag the best line in possibly film History, that's my opinion any way "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." Awesome! Ewan McGregor was amazing, he always is, he is the only person who could ever play the young Ben Kenobi, congrats on that! Ian McDiarmid was an awesomely scary emperor and completely stole the show with his freakish likeness to the original emperor. Samuel L Jackson made his character come to life....and death, wielding a purple light sabour. Only he could pull this off because he is sooo cool!, if any other actor had taken on the role of Mace Windu and started killing storm troupers with a PURPLE light sabour i think we would be wondering if something was going on between him and the little green dude!
The sound track to me is a very important element to a film as it is one of my main studies and I'm happy to say that John Williams does not disappoint. Throughout star wars, Williams has brought back certain themes and pieces, which he has used in previous films, this film had the right blend of old and new which helped the film to feel brand new yet some what familiar. My favourite piece in this film is called Padme's Ruminations. It's a beautiful piece which i feel takes inspiration from a theme in the film Gladiator. The piece was composed by a man called Klaus Badelt whom also wrote the score for films such as Constantine and Equilibrium. The piece is called sorrow, if your interested in that kind of thing you should compare the two, I'm sure you'll agree that the likeness is incredible. Along with the music and the acting, the writing was near perfect apart from that one minor slip up! Ooops! And the directing made the film work amazingly well, well done George Lucas. The sets and the costumes made you really feel like you were in the places that they were telling you they were. Sometimes i think we see the bearded director and the shiny celebrities that front these films and forget about the effort of set and costume building and design. We need to remember that the film wouldn't look that good, it wouldn't seem real without the set builders spending weeks putting together a set or the CG teams sitting at there desks for hours on end to make us feel convinced that Mace is talking to a real Yoda or that Anakin is really sitting in a ship flying through space. This film was amazing and worth the wait. Thanks to everyone who mad this film the worthy final chapter that it is, to this truly epic series, Congrats!
Msmuse101