Lucas returns to greatness

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2005)

With episode 1 and 2 weighing in my mind as I entered the theater for the final Star Wars movie, I was a skeptic like most of the fans who watched the wooden acting and bad dialogue of the last installment,"Attack of the Clones." Without a major scene with Jar-Jar and a crappy "I don't like sand" scene, Lucas brings it together and gives us the definitive prequel. I always thought without Harrison Ford that it would be impossible to bring the charm back in full force but amazingly its back and sadly for the last time. It bests even "Return of the Jedi" as my third favorite Star Wars film. Now even though its a 10 in my mind, its slightly imperfect. Some of the dialogue that plagued 2 still remains and the fact that the ending is not in question before you see it,(sorry, Anikin becomes Vader)some of the effects were a strain, at least on my eyes and it takes itself more serious then even "Empire Strikes Back" which limits some of the fun. But that doesn't matter because it brings a lot of the emotion that had been lost in Star Wars in the last 2 installments, it seemed impossible but Lucas redeemed himself.