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Rating: 9/10 (23 May 2005)

Ah, the special effects. Ah, the magic of John Williams' score. Ah, the brilliant and intense hairstyles on Padme, what a hairdresser she has in addition to her interior designer...was her makeup artist out sick this week?
Question for pondering: is there no Media covering the Senators' comings and goings? I mean, Annakin lives in an apartment with Padme. Presumably there's a doorman who knows this...
I found the weakest scene in the otherwise great film to be the climactic moment when Annakin pledges his allegiance to the Chancellor-- thirty seconds after the scene, I'd already rewritten it thus:
Chancellor & Mace in dire battle. Annakin enters, shocked.
Chancellor: Annakin! I am in danger! Save me! Annakin: I'm sorry. You have done wrong and must be judged. (Mace prepares to kill Chancellor) Chancellor: (desperate) Will you let Padme die? For this? (Annakin gasps, discovered.) Mace: (pauses before the final blow, reconsiders and moves blade closer) No. Do not try to sway me. Anakin has no relations. He may be young and foolish, but he is a Jedi. Annakin: (weeping) But it is true. I love Padme. Mace: (sad) Then we were right. You are no Jedi master. Chancellor: He does not understand you, Annakin. He does not understand love. Only I can help you. Save your wife. Slay him. It is the only way. (Pregnant pause) Annakin slaughters Mace. Continue scene as written...
Sigh. Too bad George didn't call me before he shot the scene.
may the Force be with you.