The beginning of the end-how the angelic Anakin turns into the monstrous Vader

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2005)

I was happy and sad going out of the theater, knowing that the saga of Star Wars is complete and nothing else  that epic  of this miraculous world would ever be released. The movie blew my mind away, although I had prior to that moment the novelization and script read, and my fantasy could hardly imagine how it would look like. The entering space battle/chase boomed into the theater, like nothing else before, and despite it's almost a third of the novel, it was only a prelude to the real situation, in what the turn of events led. War is tearing the Republic apart, as much as the mistrust between Jedi Consul and the Chancellor, or between Padmé and Anakin. I saw how the deceit turned the love into hatred, dedication into selfishness, compassion into lust of power. If I could have kept up at the scenes with Padmé and Anakin in love, or those of the execution of Order 66 (extermination of the Jedi), the movie definitely made me sob seeing helpless Anakin crying out of pain with his corpse caught on fire at the bank of the volcanic river. And yet, Padmé  the woman in love  surrendering the very last breath of life she had, to her beloved husband (having just given birth to Luke and Leia) made me burst in tears. I laughed the way R2-D2 set two attacking him super battle droids on fire, or the way C-3PO complained about his being helpless. I admired the sword fight, and battle techniques of Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin and my mind roamed in the landscapes of the worlds shown. Above all this the special effects, never-seen-before places, backgrounds, and all those machines, creatures, and gadgets. It was all that far, far away, where endless imagination of George Lucas could only bring us to.