Falling Fire

Rating: 7/10 (30 April 2020)

Anakin Skywalker completes his path to the dark side as he finds only The Dark Side can save his wife Padme from certain death. It's not that I hate the prequels, it's that I hate the first two and much to my surprise, really enjoyed this one. Mainly because this is what we wanted to see, I'll grant you the orgins of Anakin could be interesting, but the problem with Lucas is that he tells too much instead of showing, and finally here he does the showing and delivers rousing entertainment, often unintentional,but it's fun nonetheless. Revenge Of The Sith isn't great, but It's very enjoyable, indeed had they had a better actor than Christensen, this could've been something special. As it is, I still enjoy watching this every now and then and still relish watching McDiarmid camp it up. It's all very soap opera esque pulp, but I still years later find this prequel compulsively rewatchable. Guilty pleasure, anyone?
*** Out Of 4-(Good)