Episode III - the best movie of the prequels

Rating: 9/10 (22 May 2005)

Now the end of the saga of Star Wars is here and it awakes a lot of my memories from the old trilogy, the ones with Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. First, I want to thank George Lucas for having managed to create a spectacular movie when he failed to do that by episodes I and II, which lacked me. But this doesn't. It completely obsesses me. With cold breezes and applause, Episode III starts its beginning. The war in the space crash in full swing and it gets me to remember episode IV, which started just like that.
First I want to tell you all episodes of Star Wars.
1977 - Episode IV A New Hope. I was not even born then. But about six years old, in 1995, I did watch it the first time and I loved it completely. Everything was cool.
1980 - Episode V Empire strikes back. Neither was I born then. I watched it with the same feeling of ANH, and I loved it yet more.
1983 - Episode VI Return of the Jedi. I would watch that some years after Empire strikes back, and I was a bit disappointed. It didn't match my expectations of what I did watch in ESB and ANH. But I liked it anyways.
1999 - Episode I The Phantom Menace. What a stupid title and what a stupid movie. I didn't like it at all, except from the scenes that told you how Anakin followed with the Jedi for being learnt to a Jedi. I was very disappointed.
2002 - Episode II Attack of the clones. I didn't have great expectations of this movie, because of TPM, but I liked this better than episode I, because of the visual effects. The rest was OK, but doesn't deserve more attention than like that. Otherwise, it is an important part of Anakin's story - it gives you some ideas of why Anakin turns into Darth Vader.
2005 - Episode III Revenge of the Sith. OK, what a stupid title, but what a great movie. I had great expectations of this movie, as the trailer was very promising. And I was right. It is really a great movie.
And now, my opinion of episode III:
Actually, we know that Anakin will turn into Darth Vader and that Luke and Leia Skywalker are separated from birth, but we didn't know how and why. Upon Episode III, we are about to know everything. Episode III ties the whole saga of Star Wars and tells everything- how and why Anakin turns into Darth Vader, why Yoda is escaping from the Republic and why the twins Luke and Leia are separated from the birth. We just get to know everything. We also get to know why Obi-Wan hides himself from the Repbulic, and what happened with the other Jedi Knights.
Anakin and the chancellor Palpatine's relationship is deepened in this movie, with all its consequences, meanwhile Obi Wan and the other Jedi Knights are trying to find general Grievous and put an ending of the war. Anakin also gets to know that Padmé's pregnant, but one night and another, he is having nightmares of Padmé dying while giving birth to their child. It is just the beginning of his way to the Sith side.
Episode III is probably the best of the saga (definitively the best of episodes I-III), when I am considering that.
Else, it's a movie that ties up the whole saga with a very exciting beginning, good story in the middle and fine ending that gets you to think of the beginning of the episode IV. It's, too, fun to meet Chewie again, and having experienced the fight of Obi-Wan and Anakin beat everything else. Though, I think the battle fencing are too fast comparing to the original trilogy when you could keep you up with the battles. Here, you can barely follow the battle, which is a pity. But except from that fact, the battle scenes are well done, the visual effects spectacular, more spectacular than episode II and the other Star Wars movies.
Conslusion, the acting is excellent (in particular Hayden Christensen, who is much better in this movie than he was in episode II, and he really plays the changing of Anakin to Darth Vader so convincing that you get scared by the hell) and the dialog so forced, but it is what's the intention of Lucas's! In fact, I love the dialog in Star Wars - they just awake and raise your cold breezes! In fact, Episode III is in high speed from the very beginning to the very end, as it breaks only with dialogs and love moments between Padmé and Anakin.
What I love with this movie is also all the zooming pictures of Anakin's turn to Darth Vader, his love to Padmé and Obi-Wan's love to him as a brother. You just can't help cry and get moved. It is that piece that you were missing in episode I and II. This movie is the darkest of all in the two trilogies, and it is probably what makes this movie so magnificent, so good and all simply amazing.
This movie do you watch with a creepy feeling in the body, since there is references to earlier movies of Star Wars, in particular the original trilogy. Can't give this movie less than a 9/10, it just deserves that grade. I can't either give this movie a 10/10 when empire strikes back probably still is the best (in my point of view). But this movie deserves a 9.5/10 as it is so good in all ways.