Surely the best of the new trilogy...

Rating: 6/10 (4 December 2005)

Revenge of the Sith is a very good closing part of the Star Wars saga.After seeing it for the fourth time I can really appreciate the film in every way.It has all the elements of a good sci-fi movie and then some.Starting of with a complex and exciting first shot the story then takes off in a great first half hour,just like the great openings in The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi.After that the movie seems to go all wrong (although we can see a glimpse of the Millennium Falcon at the arrival on Coruscant) with a pretty dull and horrendous acting part that is luckily saved by a brilliant Ian McDiarmid.Hayden Christensen shows once again that he's a bad actor and good actors like Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Samuel L. Jackson get no chance to show their talents.But let us not forget that Star Wars is a serial based on it's effects and wondrous worlds.And with that RotS succeeds.State of the art SFX and great planets and creatures are made standard in this flick.
To me,probably just as any other SW fan,this movie couldn't have any surprises.The question was whether Lucas would succeed in melding the different assets of the story together.And again it succeeds,the final battle between Anakin and Obi Wan is very well made,although totally ridiculous(two guys standing 1 meter above boiling lava?)and the final pieces of the puzzle are put together perfectly.The mysteries around Obi Wan's ability to communicate beyond the grave,the exile of Yoda,the successful disappearance of the remaining Jedi knights and the fate of the two droids,all is explained with great ease and success.
RotS is not the best Star Wars film,as some people say it is.It still lacks something that made the original trilogy untouchable,especially parts IV and the greatest one,part V.But it exceeds my expectations after being slightly disappointed by part I and II although those two were still very good movies.RotS is great because of it's darkness and it's dark characters.Ian McDiarmid rules in every scene he plays in and the SFX do the rest.RotS is a worthy finale of an unforgettable saga that will always remain one of my favorite movie experiences.
Now it is time for me to start thinking about a great marathon.Watching all parts after one another is my next goal which will keep me on my couch for about 13 hours.It might by a tough start but after let say 4 and a half hours the real fun can begin.The original trilogy is still high above the rest,but RotS is very close to it's masters.In that way it doesn't really fit in the new trilogy or as Darth Vader himself would put it:The Force is strong with this one. 9/10