Best of the Prequels

Rating: 5/10 (2 June 2005)

This movie was definitely the best of the three prequels for the Star Wars saga. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that it was a great movie. Unlike in the two first installments, the Revenge of the Sith managed to bring forth my emotions at a couple of points, but I still could not but laugh whenever the screen was decorated by a so-called romantic scene. Lucas still doesn't know a better way to describe love and emotions than making the characters say them aloud or staring silently into the distance...
Still, I was pleased by this movie and my only wish is that Lucas had made episodes I&II into a single movie (spanning the childhood of Anakin) and not filled them up with useless and meaningless scenes. This third movie shows the strength of a focused story versus the incoherence that episodes I&II represented. 6/10