After watching Episode III, you'll have a much more different look on Star Wars! A masterpiece!

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2005)

**** out of ****
** WARNING! THIS COMMENT SPOILS ALMOST EVERYTHING ABOUT THE MOVIE, SO READ IT ONLY IF YOU'VE ALREADY WATCHED IT! **
For the first time ever, when you watch a Star Wars movie, you get a different feeling. The feeling of defeat, of sadness, of the birth of the most famous villain in movie history. Sure this also happened a little at the end of Episode V where Han Solo (played by young Harrison Ford) gets frozen in carbonite to be taken away by Boba Fett, the bounty hunter. A little of this we see also in Episode VI where Vader finally perishes. But here, we have Star Wars : Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith, not only the last installment of the series, but also maybe the best movie of it, and the greatest feeling that you can get: the sadness. I say this because that's what was missing in the other Star Wars films. In Episode I (which is by the way the most childish film in the series and definitely the worst), we get to see many stupid scenes with the most horrible character in the series, Jar Jar Binks. Sure I liked Jake Scott as young Anakin Skywalker, but still he is a child and we can't blame him for that. So in the scenes that he appears, we usually get the feeling of happiness, of fun, of many non-sad things, as I may say that way. When he says goodbye to his mother, sure it's a sad scene, but the feelings of a child is not even by a long shot the same feelings as of those of Episode III, including not only the characters' but the decline of the republic and death of the Jedis as well. In Episode II, there are many love scenes including Padme (Natalie Portman) and Anakin (now played by Hayden Christensen). But in Episode III, finally we get the feeling that we didn't have at the other movies. This makes of Episode III not only a different Star Wars movie, but also a movie in the series which you see in a totally different way. Finally George Lucas has changed (not that he didn't in the other movies), but in here we see the drastic change takes place. You may like even more Episode IV, after you've watched Episode III, because you now know what happened just before.
Everything in this movie is perfect! I watched it with like 10 or more so friends at the theater, just yesterday, but since after that, I got to drink with some other friends of mine, today at morning is the only time I found to write about this masterpiece. Beginning with the special effects and action sequences. Perfect! Just perfect! When the movie begins, we see Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) pilot some star ships in a mission to rescue Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). This may be the longest action sequence in the beginning of a Star Wars movie, the longest prologue with great action sequences and great special effects. Now the series has evolved a lot. One of the most non-fighter characters of all characters of Star Wars finally gets the chance to show himself what he's made of, and that's R2-D2! Yep! He (or it) makes the ground gets wet with oil and then puts fire on the place, burning two droids! And then there's the scene of the fight with Count Dooku (Christopher Lee), a very short encounter with another great villain, Gen. Grievous and a very risky landing of the starship that Anakin, Palpatine and Obi-Wan are in at Coruscant. Other action sequences includes a great (but short) fight scene between Obi-Wan and Grievous. I mean short, because Grievous has 4 light sabers and even so, Obi-Wan cuts Grievous' arms very fast! That was my only complaint here, but that doesn't matter much, since the fight goes on and on until Obi-Wan gets a blaster and shoots Grievous dead for sure! Other scenes includes Mace Windu and Sen. Palpatine, now at his original form, Darth Sidious, fighting themselves to the death, the great final scene of the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan and the fight between Yoda (who is perfect in this film, at his best) and Sidious and finally the great transformation of Anakin to Darth Vader. I must say that from Episode II to Episode III, Christensen hasn't evolved much, I still don't like him that much as I do with the other characters, but that doesn't matter much also, since the scenes including him are perfect. His performance could be better, but that's OK anyway.
Now, let's discuss about the plot. It's also perfect! It connects perfectly and masterfully with Episode IV and all of the events are explained. At least, I didn't remember an event which wasn't explained at all. Padme have 2 babies, Luke and Leia, Leia is given by Obi-Wan to Bail Organa and Luke is given to Owen and Beru Lars on Tatooine. Padme dies on birth. Yoda gets exiled. The republic is transformed to the evil galactic empire. The only actual thing that didn't happen was when Obi-Wan decided to change his name to Ben. Even Chewbacca appears in the movie! So we see that everything that was leaking explanations, gets to be explained in this movie as it fits great between Episodes II and IV. George Lucas may have make some mistakes here and there in Episodes I and II, but Episode III (I dare say it) is simply perfect. A full science fiction masterpiece. George Lucas has ended the Star Wars saga with a gold key.