the best movie of the new trilogy

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2005)

I saw this movie on Thursday afternoon and I must say that this is easily the best movie I have seen all year. I think it is the best star wars movie since "empire". this movie is visually stunning and the action sequences are awesome. the action starts up from the very beginning and doesn't let up. the set designs are awesome as well. the city of corucant looks like a future new york city or something like that and the music score gives the movie even more emotion during some of the action sequences. The dialogue is a little hokey at times especially when anikin and padme are together but then again the duologue between anakin and padme never was that great to begin with. and yes jar jar has a brief appearance but it only lasts about 30 seconds so he doesn't get a chance to become annoying.yes anikin does some pretty awful things after he goes down the dark side of the force. but on the bright side it has some awesome light-saber battles. -SPOILER ALERT READ AT OWN RISK- I thought that the light-saber battle between Yoda and palpatine was one of the best I have seen. The saber battle between obi-wan and anakin was just as good. Even Mace windu got to have a saber battle with palpatine. my favorite part of the movie was seeing Darth Vader. you also get to see Luke and Leia being born and you see the death star in early development. my only complaint is that you see all the characters from episode IV 3P0, R2-D2, Vader, Luke and Leia (although they were just babies) and chewy are in episode III the only character you don't see from episode IV is Han solo-END SPOILER- I think the reason this movie is so good is because it gets back to what the star wars movies are all about and that is a sci-fi action movie that has to do with the choices we make and the consequences of those actions. the first two (episode I and II) didn't do that. The first two tried to be more than what they were and that is why I think they didn't do as well as this one is going to do. The first one was way too obvious( young anikin skywalker had midiclorians that were off the chart and the council feared that training the boy would result in grave danger, Well Duh!) and the the second one was a love story(it's kind of creepy too if you think about. after he leaves tatoonine padme is the closet thing he has to a mother for about 10 years and then they fall in love). the third one gets back to the emotional conflicts and political conflicts. because the first three were a political conflict between the good guys and the bad guys. You had Vader and his boys who had a dictatorship and Leah, Luke and Han thought a democracy would be a better way to go. and episode II mirrors the ideals of the first three. you also get to see some cool dogfights in space which the first two were seriously lacking. I think it meshes perfectly with the fourth one. I say that because after I saw episode III I watched episode IV and it works really well. this is one movie i definitely plan on seeing again.