At least Lucas ends the prequel trilogy on a (relatively) high note.

Rating: 7/10 (31 December 2010)

Just like Attack of the Clones and The Phantom Menace before it, Revenge of the Sith, the last in George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy, suffers from CGI visual overload, lots of preposterous action sequences and wooden acting from some of its stars.
Despite all this, however, it's actually a very enjoyable affair—much better than I expected—wrapping up lots of loose ends in a satisfactory manner and in doing so delivering quite a few classic moments genuinely worthy of the franchise.
Naturally Mr. Lucas cannot resist chucking digital trickery into every frame of the film, and his dialogue is as iffy as ever, but strike me down with a light-sabre and make me more powerful than you could ever imagine if he doesn't end the series on a high (for now, at least).
Ian McDiarmid's Senator Palpatine becoming the Emperor; Anakin's turning to the dark side to try and save Padme's life; the order to turn the Clone army against the Jedis: all of this is so epic in scope that I find myself able to forgive the overblown effects, Hayden Christensen's terrible acting, and even a brief glimpse of Jar Jar Binks (OK, forgiving the presence of Jar Jar is never easy, but surely you get my gist!).