The Best of the Prequels by far

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2005)

StarWars: Revenge of the Sith is one of the best StarWars movies. When I saw Attack of the Clones I thought that was the best next to The Empire Strikes Back. I thought that was Lucas showing he can still do StarWars. No though, Revenge of the Sith is a real StarWars movie. It still has George Lucas' bad dialogue of course. There's more action than there is talking though thank god. When you think of it though, A New Hope didn't have the best dialogue either. Although the late great Alec Guinness was nominated for playing Obi-Wan, it's said that he hated the lines he had to say. Hey at least he had better lines than Natalie Portman does.
Anyway there's tons and tons of action and Lucas' pacing isn't that bad this time around. I mean in Phantom Menace, it had it's lame moments when there was huge scenes of just dialogue and no action. The weakest parts are when Anakin (Hayden Christensen) and Padmé (Natalie Portman) express their love to each other but at least those scenes are short. Hearing lines like "hold me like you did in Naboo", will make you cringe but they aren't enough to ruin the movie. Hayden Christensen's scenes with Ian McDiarmid "The Emperor/ Palpatine" are far better. He seduces Anakin to the darkside cleverly. He feeds his ego by calling him the best and saying it's a pity how the Jedi hold him back. Also he tells him that powers of the dark side will save Padme since Anakin fears her death.
This is the only StarWars prequel to my knowledge that people in the audience actually applauded to more than once while watching. They loved Yoda's action scenes as did I. Everyone seemed to be entertained more during Yoda's fight with the Emperor than the Anakin/Obi-Wan fight as well. I think that is the most enertaining fight. Obi-Wan's fight with General Grievous is very well done as well. Grievous holds the Lightsabers of Jedis he killed and fights Obi- Wan with 4 at a time at one point. Anakin's fight with Count Dooku isn't bad as well. The look on Dooku's face when Palpatine tells Anakin to kill him is priceless.
Lucas is good at structuring a script "even if he can't write dialogue for his life" and he does his best job here. He fits everything in there well. He answers almost every question you may ask. Like for example why doesn't 3-3P0 tell Luke in a New Hope that he knew his father ? He also made this the most violent and darkest of the six films. There's scenes with kid Jedis even getting killed. There's also some limbs getting cutting off from time to time. Still though it was obvious even long before this movie came out that it would be dark. I mean Anakin becomes Darth Vader and you know all the Jedis but Obi-Wan and Yoda will die. Revenge of the Sith fills in the final gap of the StarWars trilogy and it's done very well. This is a prequel that doesn't disappoint, it's exciting and not lame and is actually worth waiting on line for days and days for.