A worthy final episode, but really number 3 which leads to the first. Confusing? Maybe.

Rating: Null/10 (14 December 2005)

As I was watching this movie tonight on DVD I found myself wondering what it would have been like had all 6 movies been made in the correct sequence, instead of 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, and finally 3. But that brought me to another thought, namely that maybe 6 movies on the same theme is just too much. Oh! I enjoyed this one, a bit more than episodes 1 and 2 (which were really the 4th and 5th made), and at the end it ties up all loose ends to lead into what we know as the original Star Wars, which is now known as episode 4 but one that most saw initially over 20 years ago. The actors are good. I had harsh criticism for Natalie Portman in Episode 2, for wooden acting, but she was much better here. I always like Ewan McGregor. But I can never find Hayden Christensen as a credible Anakin Skywalker. Still, overall a very nice final installment but episode 3, and with good light saber fights.
SPOILERS. The Sith want revenge, they recognize young Skywalker as something special, he is seduced to the dark side, has a big showdown with his friend and mentor Ob-Wan Kenobi, but Obi-Wan gets the upper hand on a volcanic planet, Anakin loses an arm and both lower legs, and burned badly at the edge of lava flow, appears to be dying. But Sith arrive just in time to pull him out and save him, but he has to be fitted with the costume we recognize as Darth Vader. His wife (Portman) knowing he has turned to the dark side loses her will to live and dies during childbirth, having twins Luke and Leiah, who are separated for their safety and raised by surrogate parents, on two different planets. Which all sets up the original Star Wars movie, now known as Episode 4.
Ewan McGregor .... Obi-Wan Kenobi Natalie Portman .... PadmÃ© Hayden Christensen .... Anakin Skywalker Ian McDiarmid .... Supreme Chancellor Palpatine Samuel L. Jackson .... Mace Windu Jimmy Smits .... Senator Bail Organa Frank Oz .... Yoda (voice)