Tender, Humane and Heartbreaking.

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2005)

Minor Spoiler Warning.
An impartial review: The Best of All Six Star Wars Films.
This is one film that you will not walk out of feeling happy.
You will be saddened and emotionally drained beyond description.
But for equally satisfied, measure for measure.
Ironically, for a film series that prides itself and big, loud special-effects sequences, the finest moments in this chapter (and therefore the entire saga) are the quiet, personal ones in which computer effects are almost entirely absent.
Palpatine's seduction (there is no other adequate description to fit his unholy lust for power) of Anakin is almost exclusively composed of close-up shots in which the frames are completely devoted to their characters' being and presence, with nary a passing-by creature to rob your attention from the story at hand.
The Genocidal Murder of the Jedi Order is staged in concert to John William's most tear-jerkingly humane musical piece since Schindler's List. As Warrior after Brave Warrior fell in battle, the normally clamorous violence of their passing is but a whisper against Williams' deafeningly tender and gentle score.
Finally, Hayden Christensen can act.
He convincingly conveys Anakin Skywalker as a man who sold his soul to Darkness not out of hate or selfishness; But out of a selfless love for justice, peace and life.
Anyone who does not feel sadness for this most tragic hero should in all haste check for a heart in their chests; for if you had one after this movie, it would surely be broken.
Farewell, Anakin Skywalker, Warrior of The Republic. The Journey of Your Life can now be truly called Legend.