Resonating with today's politics, powerful and sad

Rating: 9/10 (22 May 2005)

This Star Wars chapter is different from all of the others. By far the best of the most recent three episodes, "Sith" is entertaining, powerful and heartbreaking.
Set aside the mockery you've heard about bad dialog and such, because despite the sometimes bizarre utterances of the characters this movie is an important one to be seen.
Lucas really melds his Star Wars Universe with the political atmosphere of today's world. There are astounding parallels to Sith rhetoric and the rhetoric of the Bush administration. There are tragic glimpses of what could become of the greatest democracy on Earth (the United States) nestled within the foreboding happenings of the Repuplic of Lucas's "fictional" galaxy.
On a personal scale, audiences will be shaken by Anikan Skywalker's journey to the dark side. His fear and anger, provoked and nourished by the Emperor, lead to a gut wrenching standoff between him and the ones he holds most dear. Anikan eventually sees anyone who is not in complete agreement with him as "an enemy."
Clouded by collective fears spoon-fed to the public by the Emperor, the congress of the galaxy, as well as the people, welcome with "thunderous applause" the birth of the new Empire, in order to have a more secure and "peaceful" world. Sound familiar? This is chilling.