Revenge of the Prequel Trilogy

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2005)

"Revenge of the Sith" is a film that I had eagerly anticipated since seeing "Attack of the Clones" back in 2002, and after a long 3 years of waiting I have to say that "Sith" did not disappoint.
I am too young to have seen the original trilogy first time around so I never experienced the full impact of those films without already knowing what was going to happen. I thought it would be the same with Episode 3, as there are so many things that needed to happen during the film for it to successfully join the prequel trilogy up to the original trilogy. I'm not going to spoil the film for those of you who haven't seen it yet and give too much away, but I will say that it was done in a way that I hadn't even imagined and I was definitely not expecting. This definitely added to my enjoyment of the film.
Compared to the other films in the "Star Wars" saga, "Sith" is up there with the best of them, equalling the thrill and suspense of "Empire" and "Jedi". "Revenge of the Sith" is without a doubt the best movie in the Prequel Trilogy. Lucas has managed to pull back from the mediocre Episodes 1 & 2 to create a well made and visually stunning masterpiece.
I felt also that the acting was fantastic. I could really believe every single emotion, especially from the fantastic Hayden Christensen, who has taken his character of Anakin Skywalker from a whiney teenager in "Clones" to a mature Jedi knight at the beginning of "Sith" and then down an emotional spiral that led to the rise of Darth Vader.
This film has shown me that there is not necessarily always a right and a wrong, a good and a bad. It is all simply a matter of your point of view.
Perhaps it's when Lucas uses the "dark side of the force" he really manages to produce a piece of movie history.