An epic ending to the greatest saga of all time

Rating: 10/10 (19 May 2005)

Contains some SPOILERS.
One of the greatest movies of all time? It's in my top 10.
The movie starts out with a bang. Full of action and humor, the first ten minutes of the movie provide the viewers the good-loving feeling that was present in A New Hope. It sets up the friendship between Anakin and Obi-wan very well. In Episode I, they were almost strangers to each other. In Episode II, they had a master/student relationship. Now, they are brothers.
The next thirty minutes is when this movie starts to show similar problems of PT. There are some romantic scenes between Anakin and Padme that are not necessary, the dialog is bad, and the acting is mediocre. It almost makes the viewer think that ROTS will be barley be better than Attack of the Clones.
But then the movie takes a dark turn about an hour into it. For the next scenes, the viewers are giving contrasted views with fun-loving action with Obi-wan against Greivous and then dark scenes between Anakin and Palpatine. Lucas does well in doing these two scenes at the same time because it allows the movie to slowly become dark. It wasn't a big jump in mood.
Once Mace Windu enters Palpatines office, the movie shows its true colors. Darkness takes over. The viewers starts to get on the edge of his seat after the Windu fight. You can feel something coming. Something epic is on the way.
In the last thirty minutes of the movie, the movie evolves into an epic. The duels between Anakin vs Obi-wan and Yoda vs. Sidious are one of the greatest scenes in motion-picture history. The dialog, the music, the action, the expressions, everything is perfect. Your heart cant help but beat fast, your eyes cant help but get watery. It captivates you in a way that can not fully be explain. And once it is all over and the credits roll, you cant help but clap at the amazement you just experienced.
But Revenge of the Sith is more than just an amazing movie. It shows us what life is all about. While the OT showed us life through the side of good, ROTS shows us the life through the side of evil. In OT, we see what we must do to become good and why we must do it. The character Luke Skywalker shows how powerful one can become when following down the good path. In ROTS, we see why we become evil and how we become evil. The character Anakin Skywalker shows us the darkness of evil, how evil twists one's thoughts and how evil eventually destroys one self. As obi-wan said in the OT, Anakin was killed when he started to follow down the wrong path. He was no longer Anakin anymore. He was Darth Vader. Even though they are PHSYICALLY the same person, in mind and in spirit they are not. This movie finally shows us why Obi-wan was right in Return of the Jedi.
All I can really say about this movie is that it's is amazing. While it does suffer in the beginning with some bad dialog and acting, these flaws are erased out of one's mind at the end. The movie moves you so much by the end that you don't even notice the flaws. It isn't a perfect movie, but it's a damn good one, and one of the greatest movies of all time.
Thank you George Lucas for the greatest saga ever made. It's been a lot fun. Now, all we can do is wait till the next George Lucas.