Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith - EMC's Review

Rating: Null/10 (7 March 2015)

Before we start this review we need to expand upon a major problem that Episode II caused for this film: the relationship between Owen Lars & Anakin Skywalker. So in Episode IV: A New Hope there's a scene where Obi Wan Kenobi speaks to Luke about his father. He says things about how Uncle Owen didn't like the fact that Anakin became a Jedi and thought him reckless. This scene doesn't make sense because there is no indication of this in Episode II, when the two meet at Tatooine, nor is there a scene where Obi Wan ever meets Uncle Owen, so there's no way he could know this much about the two stepbrothers. But at the end of this film Owen receives the child of Anakin from a guy he hasn't even seen before in his life (Obi Wan Kenobi), and willingly takes him in. MAJOR PLOT HOLE. Anyway, with that little mess clarified let's move on with this review of the last prequel of the Star Wars Saga. After two of the most disappointing films of all time (for some), people's' expectations for this film were extremely low. No one even cared if they'd seen Darth Vader at the end of the trailer, after the previous two movies you didn't even trust your own judgment! But to everyone's surprise, this film improved an enormous amount, with favorable reviews across the globe. So you thought, hey maybe it'll be good, and it was! The opening scene was so action packed you ignored the fact that it was all CGI! It introduced General Grievous and had that neat light saber duel where Anakin beheads Count Dooku from an order he should have resisted by the corrupt Chancellor. Now, an opening scene is very important in any movie, it can be as simple as a feather falling down on a guy's shoes, setting the tone of a gentle though inspiring story (Forrest Gump), though you can't make out exactly what the point of this opening scene is, you still find it enjoyable. The script improves at the slightest but suffers from a similar problem pointed out in our Attack of the Clones review. Anakin and Obi Wan Kenobi share some cutesy talks about their previous and exciting endeavors we didn't get to see, again treating the audience like fools! The dialog between Padme & Anakin is so bad you start to wonder if George Lucas only did these movies for visually inspiring action scenes that can sell toys. With this film the first few scenes with Anakin and Padme are so badly written you can't wait for like Obi Wan or Yoda to pop up on the screen and talk about an upcoming battle or something. The clones in this movie are just awesome to watch, some of the battle scenes on that Utapau planet are amazingly realistic. It's cool how they introduce a Wookie planet but they didn't need to shoe-horn Chewbacca in here just to sell more merchandising products. A great thing about this movie is Chacellor Palpatine and his seduction of Anakin Skywalker into becoming Darth Vader, although we question why a seemingly good guy would straight up murder children just to save Padme. He has good motives though: he senses Padme will die at the birth of their twins, Luke and Leia, believing this will actually happen remembering his mother and how he wasn't strong enough to save her. It's also cool to see how purely evil the emperor can be. John Williams is best here as the musical composer, the final light saber duel between Anakin and Obi Wan is emotionally gripping and truly powerful, with music perfectly capturing that Epic feel. But this one is sort of packed with unnecessary light saber duels, like the one between Yoda and Darth Sidious. In episode VI the emperor looks down upon light sabers as weapons of Jedi Knight, we thought that he was so powerful that he didn't even need a light saber to protect himself! The scene where Padme is choked by Anakin and everything leading up to that is great! Order 66 might just bring a tear to your eye and as a whole this film will leave you breathless! It's a tale of triumph, loss and a new hope... Out of the six films this one stands fourth, proving difficult for us at EMC to rank it, as we love all of these films but hey, if they have to be ranked, they have to be ranked..!