Every film has annoyances, but as a whole it was fantastic!

Rating: 9/10 (20 May 2005)

Before I talk about "Revenge of the Sith", let me just summarise the previous films. Lets face it TPM and AoTC were not the best films I've ever seen but still they gave me moments and glimpses of what cinema is all about. How many other films would you see people taking pictures of the initial screen when the movies starts? Then you hear that sound...oh that sound..you remember when you watched the first Star Wars a New Hope - that music gets to you. How many films do you hear the audience (adults we are talking about) scream and yell "Aaaaaaaaah !" when Yada's shadow appears before meeting Dooku. Then you hear Doodu say "Master Yoda.." and Yada replies, "Count Dooku" - (People are still yelling at that point). And then you realise that Yoda is going to fight...with a lightsaber. "Noooo - Yeessssssss" I thought I was going to wet myself. What about the Pod race, and the fight between the Jedi's and Darth Maul. Brilliant!
But George forgot many of important things of why Star Wars became such a great hit. It was a simple story - Good vs Evil. It's a children fantasy but adults loved it as well. He complicated things and got everybody lost in CGI. Enough of this..on to the "Sith"
George picked up his game at last! The film was great, pure cinema. Large crowds..yelling.. lightsabers..You can only watch this kind of film in the cinema. "Sith", goes straight into the action and Lucas only slows down once in a while to continue the story and connect the old Star Wars with the new ones. It was once again a story of good and evil, fantastic. For once I liked Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan and Hayden Christensen was much better a Anskin. There is more action in this then in any other Star Wars film and you know you've enjoyed a movie when 2 and half hours pass by without noticing. This time Lucas uses CGI to surround the story instead of being the focal point of the film, and believe me, it looks great. Only now do we understand how dark Darth Vader has become, and what a great fighter Obi-Wan is, even though he has taught Skywalker everything he knows about the force, and Skywalker is more power, Obi-wan has experience. As for Yoda, he is rightly called Master Yoda as is Mace Windu, they are musters of their art.
The guys I went with, complained about some of the "mistakes" and "faults", if you can call them that, but we all agreed this was a great film. But having thought about what they had to say about it, I realised the they were picking a tiny errors which are not even worth mentioning.
Go and enjoy cinema at it's best.