Much better than the previous two, the next ones are still better!

Rating: 7/10 (8 May 2005)

"Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" (USA, 2005, 140 Min., Theatrical Version)
A Review by Jonathan Fain
[7/10]
The closer the story line gets to the original Star Wars trilogy, the better the movie is. The mixture of the classic Star Wars storyline, and the bad tasted prequel story is excused due to the keep-on improving Computer Graphics, which steals the attention from the mess it creates in the story.
I like Special Effects, also CGI, but watching this film and its prequels is like watching a computer game movie. Towards the ending of the film, themes from the original trilogy begin to appear: Darth Vader's black mask, The Imperial Soldiers and white halled battleships, and everything seems to become aesthetic, so is the story.
The movie is full of action. At one point I grew tedious of the numerous light saber duels, and thanked god for they stopped fighting and started a dialog, which was beginning to be more interesting. The spaceship battle scenes are gigantic and too detailed and messy, makes it hard to follow the action.
In my opinion, this movie should open the saga and the fans should discard the 2 prequels, as they were truly not related to the magic of the Star Wars world.
Every kid that goes to this film, will understand the meaning of DEMOCRACY, as the term is repeated several times throughout the film. It is important for a film to teach, however, how bluntly the characters spill those words off the screen, it's annoying. Let us not forget the extremely poor, and cheesy "Love Dialogs" between Anakin and Padme. It started to annoy me in the previous episode already. The love dialogs between Han Solo to Princess Lea in the classic Star Wars were in funny and exciting and much more human.
All of the characters receive closure except for the one character who made the original Star Wars a blockbuster, and I mean HAN SOLO. He is the reason why Star Wars was such a great movie. This movie doesn't mention Solo at all.
Although the movie has many flaws, it creates a closure to the entire Star Wars plot, which gives to this movie a Shakespearean or maybe biblical atmosphere (especially at the last 5 minutes). The ending was exciting. Although I suffered at some parts of the movie with the messy and repetitive action, the ending got me out of the theater with a taste for more. Well, I do have the original trilogy at home... guess I can continue the adventure. Thank you George Lucas.
"Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" (USA, 2005, 140 Min., Theatrical Version) | Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi | Director: George Lucas 7 out 10.