Not a movie that I've been waiting for

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 2005)

Finally twenty eight years after the first Star Wars movie the legendary saga now is completed. Completed in a different way than all five previous movies, which were about good fight against evil and overtake it. The Revenge of the Syth is much darker and violent and on the contrary to previous movies it supposed to be sad but for some reasons it's not, just emotionally shallow and empty, mainly because the movie is terribly overloaded by endless battle scenes, light saber duels and computer generated special effects. Lots of those action sequences simply have no any sense, except for adding screen time and one more stream of visuals. At first look those planets, star-ships, monsters seem cool but when you look deeper they just look fake. It's more like expensive video game, not a real universe. They can show only modern technical achievements but that's the most important they only emphasize overall weakness of the story. The beginning, where we find our heroes on the middle of battle between numerous spaceships in my opinion is the silliest part of the entire six movies. The separatist forces captured chancellor Palpatine and there are huge space battle at Coruscant, where Anakin and Obi Wan are trying to rescue him. There are no any connection with previous movies, no any sense in there. The key element of the story, the conclusion of the transformation from cute and smart kid Annie to powerful evil Darth Vader is terribly fast, irrational and unconvincing. For showing his first steps on this way in Attack of The Clones teenage Anakin after several years suddenly remembered that he's got a mother, now we go next and in the first half of the movie everything proves that he turns to the Dark Side because of his profound life to Padme, that he could do everything to save her and BANG! Anakin learn that Palpatin is Sith, he saves his only because he believed that with Dark side of the Force he can save Padme but suddenly after a few minutes he forgets all about his love and now, for no reason at all, he is convinced of Jedi's plot against the Republic and kills innocent kids, called younglings. After he did all that for a short time we again return to a love motive of all his acts but finally we hear something about his "own empire". What a mess! The same problem is with transformation Republic into Empire. Too fast, too unconvincing. Yhe Jedi, who supposed to be wisest people in the entire world are careless and not pretty smart, because all of them actually are manipulated by Darth Sidius. The connection between two trilogies is not complete because of numerous minor variances with previous movies and questions without clear answer (for example where Rebels from A New Hope came from). Dialogs in the movie are on the same level with modern typical summer blockbusters, they are mostly one-lined and silly. We can hear several well-known classic lines from old trilogy but that's all. Most of the time no glamors and almost no sense. It's really hard to say anything about acting in such a movie because this endless stream of computer-generated visuals leaves not enough place for acting. However in those short moments between action sequences sometimes we can see signs of decent acting. At least Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman finally showed their acting abilities here, while Ian McDiarmid is good as Palpatine/Darth Sidius.
So sorry to say that George Lucas created nothing more than another summer blockbuster with all possible flaws and mistakes. Revenge of the Syth is a watchable and entertained movie but it obviously definitely doesn't deserve the praises it received from many critics and ordinary viewers. It's more a movie about computer-generated visuals, battles and light-saber duels than fight good against evil or Jedi and Syth.
Grade: 6 out of 10