They Finally Got the Revenge Title!

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2014)

And FINALLY, he got it (mostly) right.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith was the closest film in the mostly disappointing prequels to the original and great trilogy. It also held one of my all-time favorite openings to a movie, in this series or stand-alone films.
The film starts with a bang: a 20-minute, non-stop space battle filled with excellent special effects, sound, humor, adventure and suspense. Mercifully, the movie that follows is still pretty darn good. Not perfectyet (stay tuned for IV and V)but the best you're gonna get from the modern (at the time) Star Wars films.
This is also the only prequel movie I wouldn't mind seeing a few times; I made a silent vow to never watch I or II again. It's fun, funny, action-packed, has the best FX of the prequels and best of all: it FINALLY connects stories from the original trilogy and this back-story.
Now, that said, not perfectly. Maybe the best they could do. Case in point, watch the first four, or I, II, III and IV, in order and they do NOT mesh completely. It's good enough if you suspend your disbelief and call the characters that appeared in both the new trilogy and the old one senile and they can't remember much.
I digress. Basically we're to understand that the bulk of the "clone wars" took place between Episode II and the start of this chapter and it's now winding down. So much so, in fact, that the (sort of) "good guys" have just two last people to hunt down and either kill or bring to justice and the whole thing is decided. And they do just that.
But, they also need to get little Annie into the black suit, the (always terribly written, acted and spoken) love story wrapped up and a half dozen other lose ends to finally put this puzzle in line with Episode IV.
I think they did the best they could. Sure, it could've flowed a little better from this chapter to the next one that came out nearly 40 years ago, but from what they were working with, I.E. Georgie Lucas, it was as close as you'll probably get.
Unlike the previous films, this one I do recommend. Of course, for first time viewers, I guess I would recommend all (currently) six movies, but if you have already partaken in I and II from years past, this is the best one to get any Star Wars marathon started.
* * * Final thoughts: Keep in mind, there's still some bad dialogue and acting: "Hold melike you did by the lake on Naboo!" to the "NOOOO!" from Frankenstein's Monster at the end, this movie wants to be great, but has two hands from Georgie to tear it down a few notches. Get past these and a few more "memorable" lines/scenes and you should enjoy yourself.