Relations with the wookies I have

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2005)

Like the first two prequels, this movie features an embarrassing screenplay uttered by everything between small furry aliens to large droids. Some nice samples are "good relations with the wookies I have", "no its because I'm soooo in love with you" and "NOOOOOOOO!!!" Now this is where Revenge of the Sith is different and decidedly much better than the first two prequels. Instead of just continuing on the constant path of terrible dialogue and plot, ROTS features probably about 1 1/2 good scenes for every terrible line or moment. That extra half scene is what makes this movie so much better. It seems that for every hollow or badly-directed scene is another 1 1/2 surprisingly effective and emotional scenes.
I thought overall the acting was much better in this film, specifically Ewan McGregor. I wasn't a huge fan of him in the other SW movies, but I though he was outstanding in ROTS. He made it easy to tell where his character was going in relation to when you see Alec Guinness for the first time in A New Hope. He also looked like he was having a lot of fun. And at the end, after Obi Wan and Anakin's final duel, he was what made that scene more powerful (what could have made the scene even more powerful is if the other 2 movies didn't suck so much).
Another good performance was by Ian McDirmid as Chancellor Palpatine. You could tell that the character was less eager to hide his evil ways now and was getting ready to uncover his plan that would ultimately lead to the Galactic Civil War in the old trilogy.
Now there are possible plot holes, but it really depends on how powerful you believe the force to be. Because if jedi can feel if other jedi are dying and what other people are thinking, shouldn't have they been able to uncover a conspiracy to kill all the jedi??? I'm really not sure, maybe the dark side of the force clouded their minds. There are other kinda dumb scenes too. When Anakin decides to choke Padme at the end, isn't she the entire reason why he went to the dark side, to save her? You could argue that he was completely under the influence of the dark side by then, but then as soon as he gets into his Vader suit, hes like "wheres padme?" But like I said, for every bad scene is 1 1/2 good ones. The opening space battle, while not as exciting as the one in ROTJ, is very fun and when Obi Wan and Anakin get into the command ship, it feels very like the old movies. The Jedi extermination scene is very emotional, and throughout the movie there are several parallels that exist between this movie and circumstances in the old movies.
John William's music is as good as ever. I can't say I liked the music in Attack of the Clones, mostly because I didn't really like the one new theme (across the stars) but in this movie he adds several that are very good.
So overall, Revenge of the Sith is not a great movie. It is merely a very good movie. But a very good movie is.....very good, which can't be said for the last 2 prequels, which makes ROTS that much sweeter.