Pre-May 19th EP 3 reviews (LOADED with SPOILERS!!)

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We now have Yoda arriving on the Wookie Planet as the war begins to start up there...this is an absolutely AWESOME sequence, of which is sorely cut to it's "bare" bones evidently (and lets face it, it's hard to have exposition of the battle with a small foot-high green Jedi and walrus-speaking 7ft tall walking carpets) so although there’s (uncomfortably) no dialogue, it's a nice battle-opener and cool to see Wookie’s fighting it out with Clone Troopers...

Next, we have Anakin arriving at some form of dance/opera...although that’s not really covered much. He joins Palpatine and they begin to talk about the Dark side and how it can save peoples lives. (Cue Anakin gaining interest in this because of Padme). It's painfully obvious Palpatine is pulling every string in this whole thing...it's beautiful...and Ian McDiarmid has stolen the show up until this point. Well performed, and he has some great lines. Palpatine lets Anakin know that he's found the General, and he needs to tell the Jedi, but be warned...because he thinks they're plotting to take over the senate, and turn their back on him. Anakin rightly doesn't believe this, but Palpatine has poisoned his ear enough. Anakin also is suspicious know because of Obi-Wan asking him to spy on Palpatine.

Everyone has an agenda is this movie, and Anakin is the pawn of them all. The Jedi are made out to look as suspicious and as manipulative as Palpatine and the Sith. It's confusing for sure, and shows how far the Jedi have fallen into chaos during the 'Clone Wars'.

The key thus far (again, may have some scenes out of order) is that Anakin has been asked by all sides to do their work. The Jedi, are essentially bumbling around....not able to see what is right in their face, and because of this...they SUSPECT the Chancellor (Palpatine) is somewhat to do with this, but because they don't act in aggression (it's not the Jedi Way) the get ol' Anakin to do their work. All the while, Palpatine is playing that card telling Anakin the Jedi will turn on the Republic for themselves...and all poor ol' Ani is worried about, is Padme dying - his arrogance doesn't give a shit about anyone else...just Padme, and keeping her alive.

We leave the opera scene, and we have Anakin letting the council know that Palpatine has found the General on Utapau (on the outer rim as well somewhere) - Yoda and Mace don't trust Anakin, so they deny the Chancellors request to send him, and instead send Obi-Wan to track down, and kill the General.

We move back to Anakin visiting Padme again, letting her know he loves her...she suspects something is going on with him, he lets her know he's "Not the Jedi I should be..." he wants more, he wants power...but he's worried about Padme and will do anything to stop her dying. He goes to visit Palpatine who lets him know that the Jedi will move against him soon, and tells Anakin of and old Sith-Story about "Darth Plagueis the Wise" who learned to create life, sustain life and stop people from dying. He "Taught his apprentice everything, which is ironic...considering he could stop others from dying, but couldn't save himself......from being killed........(gravelly voice) IN HIS SLEEP"

Very nice scene again from McDiarmid...Anakin ignites his saber and figures out Palpatine is the sith lord...he now has a choice, save Padme from dying with the knowledge of the Sith, or tell the Jedi who is the Sith Lord, and watch Padme die. Confounding this, is his friendship of the Chancellor and suspicion of the Jedi, Mace and of course.....ol' Padme and her Baby.

We now fade to black, with Obi-Wan arriving on Utapau, learning that Grievous has taken everyone hostage, and he decides to go track him down...on a bird-like Lizard. Pretty good CG here, much better than Anakin riding that other weird animal during Episode II - and it has this VERY cool bird-call sound effect it does every few seconds, which is cool. So Obi-Wan rides off to find the General, as he informs a Stormtrooper, that they can arrive on the planet soon, and help dispose of all the separatists there.

We cross back to Anakin informing Mace Windu, that Palpatine is a Sith Lord....Mace tells Anakin to go wait in the Jedi Council room, as he and 3 other Jedi go to take down Palpatine. They arrive in Palpatine’s senate room, and a lightsaber battle ensues. Again, all the scenes before were poorly edited together, and now we're BEGGING for some action, instead of "talking heads". Very nice lightsaber dueling, as the (now Sith Lord exposed) Palpatine, takes care of the 3 other useless Jedi cannon fodder, and duels with Mace for a bit, breaking a HUGE glass window as Mace gets the best of Palpatine....and has him ready to Kill. Meanwhile, Padme looks out her window, Anakin looks out his...Padme looks out hers...Anakin senses her and decides that actually, the Jedi and Yoda don't know shit about loosing someone he loves...and he's going to go save his friend Palpatine, thus he runs off and finds a shuttle...

Meanwhile, we're back to Mace and Palpatine, who starts frying our Shaft-Jedi with blue lightening...but Mace is too strong, and it ends up frying Palatine’s boyish good looks (hence why he looks like a raisin in Episode VI) Anakin turns up, tells Anakin he is too weak and that the Jedi are trying to overthrow the republic...HORRIBLE scene between Palpatine and Mace as they essentially say to each other "no he's the bad guy...no HE is...no HE is" basically that. It's terrible. And takes you WAY out of the moment (with even flashes of Gollumn-esque screams from Palpatine...it's quite bad..).

Anakin now has a choice, who does he believe...the Jedi who bummed him out and didn't make him a Master, or the Chancellor...who he knows is a Sith Lord, but (in the grand scheme of things) has been FAR more honest with him than the Jedi...then it hits home. Save Padme, or not...he chooses Palpatine, and slices off Maces hand with his Saber...(which stops the horribly acted "no You’re the bad guy...no HE's the bad guy" scene ...and Mace essentially goes "oh shit" and Palpatine, who's been faking his weakness....fries Mace like Bacon with Blue lightning, and he plummets out the window to certain doom.

Poor Anakin, now realizes what he's done...and Palpatine creeps back into Slimy-Sith Lord mode, and announces that Anakin has made the right decision and they can now both restore peace to the Galaxy. Anakin begs Palpatine to tell him how to save Padme, he will...in return Anakin becomes his apprentice "You will now be know as Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith". Palpatine says the Jedi have turned on their republic, whether Anakin believes this or not at this stage isn't important...I get the feeling that Anakin now has ONE sole focus, and that is Padme, the Jedi are irrelevant to him now....to save Padme, he has to find out how through Palpatine. So because he is selfish, power-hungry and impatient...this is a means to and end.

We cross now to Yoda, who senses something is up with Anakin as the battle rages on the Wookie planet (for all 45sec) then we cross back to Obi-Wan, as he continues his pursuit of General Grievous. He's found him, and leaps into battle....just as the Clone Troopers arrive to help him out. Ol' Grievous is a huge metallic pussy, and runs off on some speeding wheel bike...as Obi-Wan makes Chase, tracks him down and they battle lightsaber-to-4-armed-Grievous-lightsaber and Obi-Wan makes easy work of him, then Grievous gets the upper hand as Obi-Wan looses his lightsaber over the side of the ledge... throwing Obi-Wan to certain doom over the same ledge...but he clings on....Grievous walks over to finish him off, Obi-Wan force-grabs a gun, shoots Grievous in the Guts and possibly the coolest moment of the movie, as Grievous catches on fire, his guts explode in fire...and his whole face begins to burn and he dies.

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We're back to Palpatine and Anakin, as he says to restore "peace" to the galaxy, he has to now go a planet called Mustafar, and wipe out all the remaining separatists...not before, however...Palpatine gets rid of the Jedi...Anakin is sent to the Jedi Council with an Army of Stormtroopers to take out all remaining Jedi, while Palpatine (Now Darth Sidious in all true-form...wrinkly and gravel-voiced) issues "order 66" to all the stormtroopers throughout the Galaxy....which essentially means, the Jedi are the Enemy, kill them.

This is the moment I was talking about earlier....Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith will be remembered for THIS one moment, this is what will make your gut wrench....The scenes of the Jedi-Purge across the Galaxy. Absolutely, heart wrenching. Breathtaking CGI and FANTASTIC SCORE from John Williams, as the music is turned up loud...and Anakin Marches towards the Jedi Temple, we have scenes from across the galaxy from various worlds...as many high-profile Jedi meet their doom at the hands of the now order-66 controlled Stormtroopers...it's heartbreaking. It really is.

Anakin walks into the Jedi Council as a cute-as-buttons little Jedi walks up and asks "Master Anakin" what to do...Anakin ignites his lightsaber....the Female Audience in my screening literally went "oh ****" loudly...and we cut to Yoda...who drops his walking stick and we have the first ever star-wars moment, where Yoda deserves an Academy Award for the look on his face.

Just....Amazing.

It's the moment of the movie for me...and it will twist your gut. You realize now, Anakin will do anything to save Padme. Absolutely. Anything. Yoda now realizes this...from half-way across the galaxy...The clones start to turn on Yoda, but he bests them with a couple of lightsaber-induced decapitations (I forget what the count is now...there's a drinking game in this movie for it, that’s for sure....take a shot each time someone looses their noggin...) We have a pained look on Yoda's face...and we cut to Obi-Wan...

Just as he gets his lightsaber (which fell over the ledge in his battle with Grievous...remember?...that’s why he used the Gun..."How Uncivilized"...that was the line) the clones receive the order from Palpatine, and Obi-Wan bites the dust from Gunfire, plummets down the HUGE Utapu sinkhole, and with a splash...that’s the end of Obi-Wan...or is it?...

We cut to Padme, watching out her window the Jedi Temple, burning in the distance...she begins to cry, and Anakin turns up....she's worried about him, because of the fires....he says not to worry, the Jedi have turned on Palpatine but it's all good, he's saved the day....Padme does her "What the?.." moment, and Anakin informs her, that he has to go wipe out all the Separatists on Mustafer for the Chancellor, then he can "save her from dying in child birth" (seriously, they say that line a "little" too much for my liking...) Padme can't quite get to grips with what Anakin has done, and doesn't believe the Jedi would do such a thing...Anakin hasn't got time, he's got a-killing-to-be-a-doing...so leaves with R2 and in his ship, he flees off for Mustafer...

We cut back to the senate, where we get a random scene with Bail Organa, who turns up and is ordered to "Return home" by the Stormtroopers, we have a random Jedi Padawan (the son of Lucas I was told later) as a pointless scene taking out stormtroopers, before he too bites the dust...Bail witnesses all this and takes off....

(If George Lucas has cut any decent MEATY scenes from this movie to put that scene in...I'll be rather annoyed...)

We cut back to Yoda, who has escaped with the wookie’s to his little ship, obviously hard to have any dialogue here, the whole Wookie thing wasn't well-thought out to be honest...you really needed Threepio there to translate or something...but anyway, Yoda fly’s off...and we're away to Mustafer, as Anakin arrives and takes out the Separatists one by one, who have just been informed by Lord Sidious that "My new apprentice Darth Vader will be there shortly to take care of the situation" - quite cool to FINALLY hear Vader’s name spoken by Palpatine/Sidious again...very nice. No Dialogue, just more Decapitations and Death, as Nute Gunray begs for his life...but gets sliced in half....Anakin mugs the camera and we see his "Sith Eyes" on for the first time....cool moment in the trailer...cool moment now.

Back to Obi-Wan who gets a message from Bail Organa that he's picking him up, he's got Yoda onboard (who escaped the Wookie Planet) and they all meet up on the Episode IV ship - and Yoda is worried about what’s going on. Bail informs Yoda that Palpatine has made an "emergency" senate meeting to declare himself Emperor - neither suspect Anakin has anything to do with this, but as they arrive at the Jedi Temple (back on Coruscant) all is not well...The come across hundreds of dead Jedi Children, Obi-Wan says the damage was done by a lightsaber, not a blaster...and as they go to "recalibrate the order 66 to save whatever Jedi are left from certain doom". (note here, and OBVIOUS illusion that not all the Jedi are going to be killed at this point...even though all the high-profile movie Jedi have all had scenes of being killed...even the hot-blue-twilek Aayla Secura has met her doom...evidently, the Order 66 has been 'recalibrated' to save whoever is left...can anyone say TV series?). This is a pretty awful scene to be honest...and now we have Obi-Wan watching a holographic recording of Anakin taking out various Jedi, and watching the whole "You will now be called Lord Vader" scene...it's not nearly as good as it sounds, but Yoda saves the horrid-acting-day with a "talk with Palpatine I will" line, which alludes to the fact, he's going to kick some ass.

We FINALLY get Ewan back into acting mode, as he BEGS Yoda not to have to go find Anakin - he doesn't want to kill him, he is his brother...Yoda says Palpatine is too strong, and Obi-Wan (after kicking hordes of Stormtroopers, a Droid General and half a friggin droid army) is apparently not strong enough. Well come now Yoda....surely if Mace bloody Windu can best-Palpatine, you'll kick his arse right?...

Obi-Wan reluctantly decides to track down Anakin, but has to figure out where he has gone....he meets with Padme, but she won't tell him where Anakin has gone (basically lies, tells him she doesn't know...she doesn't trust the Jedi now either)...that is until Obi-Wan tells her that Anakin has turned to the dark side, he killed all the little Jedi-Kids and Padme now has the same choice Anakin had. Does she believe her "heart" which tells her Anakin is a good person, or believe the now very dodgy Jedi...they seriously are made out to be an untrustworthy lot. We have a nice Senate scene, as Palpatine has recovered from his Gollumn-esque screaming, and switches back to the "Emperor" mode, declaring a new Galactic "Empire" of which he will rule, and the Jedi will all be killed, because they tried to kill him. Makes Sense.

He has some outstanding lines here...Padme is there in the senate "This is how an Empire is formed, to rapturous applause" with Bail, and we then have her and Threepio leaving, as she says she's off to go and find Anakin, and find out what is going on. Obi-Wan is scene sneaking aboard Padme's ship and hides in a small space, as Padme and Threepio blast off for Mustafer.

Yoda is next, it's time for him to kick some ass once more, and he turns up and informs Palpatine, that his rule is at and end...and a short one it will be. Palpatine thinks differently and owns Yoda with force lightening. Pretty brutal to be honest...Yoda for the next 4 or 5 minutes is made Palpatine’s *****, as he informs him how long he's been "waiting to kill you, my little green friend"

We cut to Padme arriving on Mustafer, and Anakin meets her, there's a bit of cheese here, as we do the 'talking heads' thing between the two...a couple of horrid lines from Padme, Anakin has a ripper of a line "We can rule the Galaxy together" Padme does her "What the?!" face...Obi-Wan lets everyone know he's arrived (a nice shot of him just standing and looking at Anakin...obviously unsure of what to do) Anakin thinks Padme has brought Obi-Wan here to kill him, he begins to choke her...(this is where the movie hits the PG-13 portion...)...Obi-Wan asks him to stop, he ignites his lightsaber...Padme drops to the floor...we get a couple of nicely acted and delivered lines here from Anakin, and the battle to "apparently" end them all is on....

Back now to Yoda, who kicks back into gear, force-pushes Palpatine across the room, and gets up....Palpatine "does a Grievous" and cowardly tries to run away from Yoda, Yoda stops him at the door...ignites his lightsaber, and THIS battle which DOES end them all is on....and it's WAY better than the Dooku one, Yoda is no longer a jumping foot-high gimp, he's a Jedi-Master, and although doesn't really best Palpatine at any stage (which is a bit odd, considering Mace Windu had no trouble....I mean, this IS Yoda....) there are some cool moments, one especially as the fight on top of Palpatine’s senate pod, as it raises into the senate arena...very cool moment....

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Back to "The Duel" - which sorry to say...isn't all I thought it would be, very static camera shots...there's no dialogue...it's just all action, and it's good....very CGI heavy, but yeah, it's all a bit "meh" to be honest...right up until a whole tone of lava flows over a section of the floor their fighting on, it begins to melt...a HUGE lava-fall is soon approaching, so they all abandon this platform floor, and jump onto floating debris on he lava bed. Now THIS part is where it gets cool....finally....

Back to Yoda, who's getting his arse kicked by Palpatine, hurling HUGE senate pods at him. There's a cool moment where Yoda spins a senate pod back at a "pretty happy with himself" Palpatine - but to no avail, as Yoda gets knocked down some more by a couple of Lightsaber blows from Palpatine, looses his lightsaber....and hits the deck (loosing his Jedi garb and all...) crawls off away from the Sith Lord...and into I guess, some kind of wall-hovel or something...

Back to the duel, which is FINALLY living up to it's name, as we get a bit of dialogue, and Anakin and Obi-Wan fight each other on the floating lava bed...this is pretty cool...Obi-Wan takes his moment to jump aboard the "land" next to the Lava river and informs Anakin "There's no use, give up...I have the higher ground" (thanks for letting us know what we can see for ourselves Obi-Wan...) Anakin, pissed at Obi-Wan leaps and tries to kill him, Obi-Wan slices Anakin's legs off and he hits the ground, right next to the Lava River.

Another gut wrenching moment, as Obi-Wan looks on with sorrow at the legless Anakin, who screams at Obi-Wan that he hates him. At this point, you've either brought the whole "Anakin is doing this for Padme, it's at a means to an end" or you haven’t. I guess he hates him now, because he THINKS Obi-Wan has tried to twist Padme around to his thinking...(by Obi-Wan telling Padme earlier on that her husband has turned to the Dark side) - I TRUELY believe even at THIS stage, Anakin doesn't believe he has turned to the dark side. I think that’s the key - even now, he's just doing this to save Padme, he doesn't care about peace in the Galaxy, or the Jedi or Palpatine...Padme is dying, he choked her...his bad, now he has to Kill Obi-Wan, so he can get the recipe off Palpatine to save Padme....it's all about what Anakin wants.

Ewan McGregor finally gets to collect his paycheck, so he decides to act...and delivers some gut wrenching lines to Anakin, who begins to catch on fire because he's slipping so close to the lava...seriously, there's no cut scenes...the dude IGNITES right in front of us, he begins to burn alive...screams...and Obi-Wan just turns his back and walks away....heartless....absolutely...heartless.

Obi-Wan goes back to the shuttle, Threepio and R2 are there to greet him, he boards Padre’s ship, with her lying unconscious...and they take off...

We cut back to the senate, where a pod-full of stormtroopers have been searching for Yoda, Palpatine orders them to keep hunting...while he senses Anakin needs his help, so he gives an order to ready him a shuttle.

We cut to Yoda who gets a call from Bail Organa, Yoda jumps out of the wall he was crawling along, outside, into Bail's floating car thing...informs Bail he has failed...and they take off to get the hell off Coruscant...

We're back to Mustafer, as a charred and graphically scarred Anakin is struggling to crawl along the land, next to the lava river...Palpatine’s shuttle turns up and we have a spine-chilling scene of Palpatine kneeling down next to the dying Anakin, and orders a life pod for him, to take him back to Coruscant...

We cross back to Obi-Wan Meeting up with the escaping Yoda and Bail in an asteroid field, as Padme lies on a table, a Robert informs us that she is dying, and they need to operate..."She has lost the will to live" we're told. It's pretty gut wrenching to be honest....

We cut to Anakin, being taken off Palatine’s ship all charred and dying, still alive and being taken to Palatine’s Frankenstein-ish medical table...

We cut back to Padme on the table, dying...she goes into labor (yes, we get a BIRTH acted to us in Star Wars...Christ...it seems kinda weird to be honest) we cut back to Anakin, now part-Vader screaming, as he's operated on in the Frankenstein-room, this is pretty scary stuff....he's still moving around on the table, in pain...while they attach a new Arm and leg for him....screaming and so forth.....Back to Padme, who's screaming because she's having twins, they're both delivered....she names them (in a fairly uncomfortable and seemingly...odd way) and she tells Obi-Wan there is still good in Anakin, even now...and she dies...

Back to Vader, who now is almost completed - we get another spine-chilling moment as the Iconic mask is lowered on his face, and for the FIRST time, we get an idea of what Vader's world looks like through HIS eyes, as the masks eyes (from the inside) flicker to life...and it's nothing but red colored and all computer-like (hence the, "See you, with my OWN eyes" line in Episode VI)

We cut back to Padme, now on her Funeral Bed on Naboo....in a Parade full of people, we cut back to Vader rising on his Frankenstein operating table, and asks the Emperor "What happened to Padme" - Palpatine informs Vader that HE killed him, and we get a "No...it's not true" from Vader (all deep voiced) Palpatine smiles, says nothing...then we get unintentionally funny moment number 3, as Vader Rips his arms out of the operating table, stumbles forward Frankenstein-like, begins to force-crush everything in the room...and screams an all James-Earl-Jones-voiced "Noooooooooooooo" all while Palpatine smiles evilly next to him.

It's kinda cheesy, it won't be the "Birth of Vader" moment SOME were hoping for, but there's NO other way to do a scene like that, so it's not all bad....just good....not great.

We cut back to Bails ship, where Yoda says they need to go into hiding, Obi-Wan agrees...Yoda informs Obi-Wan that he has training from his old Master, Qui-Gon, on how to gain "Eternal life" - and will teach him how to communicate with him. Bail agrees to take Leia, Yoda tells Obi-Wan to take Luke to Anakin’s family on Tatooine....and Bail gives the droids to a certain Captain aboard the ship, and as an off-the-cuff remark to Threepio, tells him to wipe his memory...but R2 evidently gets to keep his.

The last line is an "Oh No" from Anthony Daniels, then we cut to Vader, Palpatine and Tarkin on the Bridge of a Star Destroyer, watching over the construction of the "Death Star" in the background, we cut to Bail arriving on his home world (Alderaan) with Leia, and he and his Wife dote over the baby girl...We cut to Tatooine, and Obi-Wan gives Baby Luke to Aunt Beru...and we have a rehash of the Luke/Sunset moment in A New Hope, as Aunt Beru, and Uncle Owen...stare into the Sunset, as Obi-Wan rides away....annnnd, roll credits.

The End of Star Wars.

My final thoughts - If you BUY into Anakin’s reasoning for choosing Palpatine over the Jedi, (His love for Padme, and his one focus that everything he does, no matter what...he had to save her) then you'll enjoy this movie....some audience members I spoke to afterwards, just didn't buy it. So they were lost from the start.

Overall, acting was about as much as you could expect...there were moments (most notably the opening first 15-20minutes and the last 15-20minutes) where it was spot on from Ewan, Hayden and Co...

The whole reason why Palpatine has his raisin face, is VERY poor...but I guess it works. I didn't buy that Mace could take out Palpatine so easily, and yet Yoda got owned by him so badly....and I was kinda bummed that "THE Duel" was only FANTASTIC from the second half of it, the first portion was kinda "meh"

Yoda's duel with the Sith Lord Sidious is absolutely fantastic, as is the opening sequence with the rescue of Palpatine - I wanted MORE of the Kashyyyk battle...but I guess MOST of all, as I've mentioned...the "Jedi Purge" is just heartbreaking...it's so well done. It's a 2-3min portion of the movie which is PURE Star Wars in its execution, and it's beautiful - and at the same time gutting. Anakin IS Vader at this moment, the clones ARE Stormtroopers - and the Jedi all of a sudden, can have all the Midichlorians they like, they're still screwed, because Palpatine IS the Emperor - and despite some uncomfortable moments...Ian McDiarmid, steals the show both Character and acting-wise, but he's only gets that nod ahead of Yoda, because he's digital. Let’s face it though, this is Yoda's movie to shine...and he does.

Overall, this is the BEST of the prequels, I have no doubt about that. It's THE most Star-Warsy of the 3 and has little to no Jar Jar, there's no Qui Gon (he'll be in the DVD I'd expect) which is sad...but Obi-Wan has ALL the best lines, the humor is left to R2 D2 which is perfect, and it works really well...and the Droid General is a Slimy Coward, which is so cool....but whoa, those Jedi Purge scenes are fantastic. They WILL be what this movie is remembered for, Yoda's face...his reaction, Anakin and the Kids....it's heartbreaking, moving and just amazing.

PG-13 - you betcha, it's VERY graphic at the end...if that’s what you're looking for, then you're going to get it. There are decapitations galore, and a cool "Oh Shit" moment with Yoda, when he takes out a whole tone of clones outside the Jedi Temple, jumping up and thrusting his lightsaber into one Stormtroopers chest!! (when they return to find out what Anakin has been up to)

This is NO Empire Strikes Back, but it is also no Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions. This is the Star Wars many have wanted, whether they LIKE how it is presented to them, is another matter. Did I like it? Absolutely....is it all I expected? Absolutely.

It is what it is.

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Nice review... I hope it will be the same to me 🙂 I'm gonna see it this sunday 🙂

The guy who wrote the review is answering questions...

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The Opening space battle is fantastic, the section after that is pretty hap-hazardly edited. You get a WHOLE load of scenes intercut with each other. It's very hard to track who is where now, if you know what I mean?

Which is why I think I may have a couple of scenes out of order...there really is a scene change every 2 or 3 minutes right up until the Mace/Palpatine fight. It isn't good - and it's all talking-heads. There's a couple of really bad fades used too.

The last section of the movie, from after the Mace death right through until the end, is edited REALLY well together. The juxtaposition of Padme's Death to Vaders Birth is well done...then the funeral and so forth. It's very well done.

you were pretty specific in terms of the Anakin/Obi-Wan duel and the Yoda/Sidious fight, but how was the Palpatine/Mace one? If there's one that gives me some worry, it's that one since it's hardly mentioned at all in any of the early reviews. Jackson even seems to be taking some heat from his performance. You'd hope that he'd at least salvage his jedi rep during his coup de grace scene.

It's okay...it's mostly closeups - Palpatine does this cool "twist through the air" thing when he first goes to take out he 4 Jedi, he easily gets rid of 3 of them, Mace puts up a bit more fight - but it's all very closely cut and more "classic" lightsaber fighting, than the more fast-paced "PT" stuff in "The Duel" later on.

It's fine....but I was just confused as to why Mace seems to be able to best Palpatine so easily, when Yoda is CLEARLY the better swordsman...

does Yoda ever say "Chewbacca"? I just can't hear it in my head...

For memory, he does...when he's leaving the planet he thanks them both by name, as says he will "miss you" to Chewbacca....and he also says "Tarrful" which is the other Wookie in the scene. The whole Wookie battle should've been WAAAAY longer, but it's cool for what it is - just is kinda random, as Yoda really has no reason to be there, other than to be out of the Temple when the Jedi Purge goes down.

obi-wan turns his back on anakin who is burning alive? holy shit, I'm crying already. this is gonna be hard to watch.

Yeah, honestly....it's almost offensive! Anakin's basically burning alive, and Obi-Wan just turns and walks away. He's gone and you see Anakin just lying, crawling for his life burning away.

It's pretty graphic...

Is Quinlan Vos in the movie ? Do we see Luminara Unduli, Barriss Offee & Stass Allie die ? Do we see a lot of Felucia, Mygeeto & Saleucami ?

- I don't know who Quinlan Vos is sorry....

- Yes, all the high-profile Jedi from the council are seen dying as far as I could tell...either close up front (Aayla etc) or nearby or in the background. You can make them out if you're looking for them. All those scenes were cut together really well.

- No you don't see "lots" of those planets, but the portion that they're in (the Purge secuence) is breathtaking, heartbreaking and just simply amazing. It really is the best portion of the movie, it's when you realise that everyone "dramatically" is about to die....

Yeah, thanks again, Biggs. I'm sure your fingers must be sore from typing all of that.

Glad to see the reviews are mostly positive. Looks like this is the one, guys!

Heh, not sore....but you know, everyone needs a decent review now and then!...

I'm honestly not sure if I was positive, I need to see the movie again thats for sure, I liked it...it's good....no in fact it's great, it's just there's little niggley moments here and there where you just feel the ball was dropped a little.

If I had to rate it, maybe.....7/10 - possibly my Second favorite StarWars movie...it's EASILY better than I and II thats for sure.

I just feel like you missed the obvious in the Mace vs. Palpatine duel. Palpatine faked his loss so that Anakin would "save" him.

No I didn't. This is the point, Palpatine wasn't "faking" his loss - Anakin wasn't even in the same BUILDING as Palpatine when Mace screwed him. Thats the thing, Anakin never saw that whole thing transpire....he just walked in on Mace about to take out Palpatine, which is all well and good - but it's hard to believe, the way it is presented is simply that - Mace out-duels-palpatine. I mean, he looses his lightsaber out the window....the dude wouldn't get his face-fried if he didn't have to, Mace really does beat him. THEN Anakin turns up - makes the choice.

Though I will admit, given that scenario...most Jedi would side with Palpatine....he was getting wasted at that point....

was Mon Mothma cut from the film completely. I know the whole Delegation of 2000 or something was cut, but was she completely then. No lines?

Also, how about that one Jedi Temple scene that resembles the briefing in ROTJ I've seen in a KV. I'm assuming that's not in the movie as well?

No, and No. No Mon Mothma, no Jedi Temple scene along those lines, though the end of it is still in, as we're (essentially) following Anakin the whole first half of the movie, we get to see the room they were in and Obi-Wan says "you missed the briefing" and thats about it....[/b]

please tell me that all the music was new score and there were no bits recycled from other movies.

I was waiting for someone to ask me that, unfortunatly no...there are recycled score sections. The first is the "The Droid Battle" theme when they begin the attack on the Wookie planet, you see the droids appearing from under the water (it's quite cool), and the wookies beginning their attack etc... and "Duel of the Fates" is in - despite what you've heard...when Yoda fights Sidious in the Senate room, it's also in a small section of the duel afterwards that as well (as they're intercutting between the two).

So no, it's not all-new score....I'd say 90% is mostly new score, but small sections are from the other two prequels....

There could be a little bit more, but I didn't notice it, so i don't think there was...and thats stuff I would notice more so than anything else if you know me Wink

more:

- Yoda was fantastic, his "acting" was seemless. He's come a LONG way since AOTC so you'll be impressed. There's these great closeups of his eyes (and ol' Grievous as well) which are just great CG moments. It's very impressive.

- The clones were okay, like I said...a couple of iffy moments on Utapau, it looks like the clone-armour was all CG while the heads were real?...thats the way it looked anyway. They were okay...

- GG was pretty good CG...a few iffy moments, but all in all he was very believeable - a nice closeup of his eyes too which looked all funky at one stage. Very cool.

- No Dagobah, no mention of it. Nothing. Yoda just says he's going into hiding for a while. Thats it.

- I don't think my version was digitally projected, no....which was why it was a little bit blurry here and there. The sound could've been turned up a notch too in the cinema.

RE: Palp/Mace....

It just doesn't come across as a "fake" - the way it's played in the scene by the actors, the lines they have...and the cutting between Anakin in the council waiting for Mace etc etc - it just came across that Palpatine got duped by better swordsmanship by Mace...THEN Anakin turns up to save the day for Palpatine....

I guess I need to see this section of the movie again before I dig too deep a hole on my opinion of this scene.

I think I was a bit put off by the whole "no he's the bad guy...no HE's the bad guy" portion of the whole thing right as Anakin turns up, it was pretty lame....I dunno, perhaps you're right. Once I see it again on Monday I'll see how I feel about it. At the moment anyway, I just think it was a little odd....given Yoda really doesn't fare too well against Palpatine later on....

what about the acting overall? On par with the other prequels? Were there any cringe-worthy scenes (either caused by the writing or delivery of the dialogue)?

It's about what you could expect. The scene before Obi-Wan turns his back on Anakin is pretty well acted, there are some lame duck moments - one that stands out was in the Mace/Palpatine scene, when the Emporer is getting fried by his own Lightening....there's this weird....Gollum moment from Ian...it's odd...you'll know it when you see it. Other than that, Ian is pretty solid for the rest of the movie. Yoda is the best of the lot, Bail is wooden the whole time, Obi-Wan (Ewan) is great, Natalie has pretty much nothing to do but look pregnant and look out windows the whole time, she's okay....Anakin (Hayden) has some great acting moments, and some real shockers...his best lines are near the beginning of the duel, some great moments with Palpatine and a nice moment at the beginning with Padme. It's all okay.......it's about on par with every other StarWars movie...

also, something I've worried about... the last scene of the film, Obi Wan taking Luke to Tattoine. How does that come off. In the video game footage it looked, as someone suggested, like an 'Orphan Drop Off Centre'...

No, it was really well done. A nice way to close the film off...twin suns were there, Obi-Wan has a nice moment when he turns and walks away from Beru and Owen....worked fine for me....odd way to close on the movie, with two peripheral characters though...but I guess it's the way it works into the other 3 movies. Didn't feel like an end, felt like a "new beginning" or....a "new hope" heh.... Mr. Green

So are there any scènes with other Senators than Bail & Padmé still in the movie ? Are all the Senators like Mothma, Zar, Dany, Breemu, Eekway, Taneel, etc... completely cut from the movie?

What about Jar Jar ?

No Senators, nothing at all....you see a few when they get back to the senate after crash landing the "bit" of the ship...but no dialogue. Barely any Jar Jar, he has 1 line I think...and it's in the background as they're walking away....he mugs the camera in a senate scene when Palpatine declares himself Emporer, thats about it. You don't miss him, thats for sure..... Neutral[/b]

how did you see it already?

Like your new sig Double D.

He seemed to be pretty negative throughout the review then we get all the absolutely crap. What the hell is up with that.

I dont buy his take on the duel, even the odd twirly lightsaber part they have been showing on talk shows is cool as hell.

He admits that Palpatine is faking against Mace, buy yet he cant comprehend Yoda losing to him if he lost to Mace.

And poorly acted this, and poorly acted that. You try to ****ing do better, never has the acting in SW bothered me.

I know I sound defensive and that I cant take a bad review(which it was), but I can, I just cant take thsi guy as credible, especially since he didnt what happened when.

PS: I cant believe Vader is awake during the creation scene.

Hmm, let me first state, that anytime someone claims they have seen a movie before it comes out, no one believes them, and in this guy's case, I'm sure he did see it. However, I have to say that I wasn't fully impressed with his review. I wouldn't really call it a review, it was more of a plot summary with a few of his remarks. I mean, I myself, having read the script could have answered mostly all those questions. But I guess most spoilers have already been heard or answered, but still....And I do partially agree that he sounded rather negative about odd parts, that wouldn't seem to be that bad (which maybe I'm mistaken). I want to see how the scene with Darth Vader breaking loose of the table is. I've been hearing that it is corny, which is too bad really. But hey, everyone should be glad that we are getting some negatives in these reviews, it'll keep the hype down for the rest of us. I have a blog site where I review movies, and just talk about movie stuff, and I'll definately write one for Episode 3 when I see it. Here's my site, for those of you who want to see it, and be looking out for my review come May 19th:

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=MicahKnapp

here's a review from Variety, yo

The Force returns with most of its original power regained in "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith." Concluding entry in George LucasGeorge Lucas' second three-pack of space epics teems with action, drama and spectacle, and even supplies the odd surge of emotion, as young Anakin Skywalker goes over to the Dark Side and the stage is set for the generation of stories launched by the original "Star Wars" 28 years ago. Whatever one thought of the previous two installments, this dynamic picture irons out most of the problems, and emerges as the best in the overall series since "The Empire Strikes Back." Stratospheric B.O.B.O. is a given.

Indeed, "Sith" looks likely to follow the commercial pattern of the initial trilogy, wherein the second edition, "Empire," dipped considerably from the first, only to see the third, "Return of the Jedi," bounce back closer to the level of "Star Wars." In the case of the most recent set, "The Phantom Menace" grossed $921 million worldwide (slightly more coming from foreign territories than from the U.S.), while "Attack of the Clones" slipped to a $647 million worldwide cume. There's little doubt "Sith" will significantly improve on the latter figure.

Everyone who has followed the "Star Wars" saga over the years will come to this film knowing that it all has to pay off here: the transformation from Anakin into Darth Vader, the face-off between Anakin/Vader and his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, the morphing of the Republic into the Empire, the exile of Yoda and Padme's birth of the twins Luke and Leia, siblings who become the central figures in episodes 4-6.

Given the general awareness of what's going to happen, it's up to Lucas to make it exciting. Despite fans' varying degrees of loss of faith that set in with "Menace" and "Clones," most will be inspired enough to believe again.

As if deliberately setting out to reassert his mastery over his iconic creation, Lucas opens with an amazing shot of his two Jedi Knights, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregorEwan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden ChristensenHayden Christensen), threading their little spaceships through an extraordinary maze of explosions and airborne craft.

In fact, the initial 23 minutes virtually constitute one eye-popping action sequence, as the Jedis fight an assortment of battles to rescue the kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) from the clutches of the skeletal separatist General Grievous.

When things settle down to reunite Anakin with Padme, who announces she's pregnant after the idyllic secret wedding that climaxed "Clones," one is briefly reminded of Lucas' shortcomings as a writer and director of intimate, one-on-one scenes. But it's a minor problem here, as the dynamic of onrushing events soon becomes all-enveloping, and several interconnected conflicts are brought to a head.

As was not always the case the last two times out, Lucas' storytelling sense is admirable as he lays out the growing schism between the Jedi council -- which supports the Republic -- and the Chancellor, who has been granted exceptional powers in the current crisis.

Caught in the middle is Anakin, trained all his life by Obi-Wan to be an exemplary Jedi, but suddenly plagued by dreams of his wife's death in childbirth, offended by the Council's refusal to grant him master status and susceptible to the Chancellor's promise that only through the attainment of dark powers can he save his wife.

As Anakin stews, Jedis led by Obi-Wan attack General Grievous, which occasions more spectacular lightsaber fights (the movie is full of them). When Jedi Knight Mace Windu (Samuel L. JacksonSamuel L. Jackson, finally given something to do) attacks the Chancellor after learning he's a Sith Lord, Anakin must decide once and for all where his allegiance lies, his ultimate choice pitting him tragically against those closest to him, Padme and Obi-Wan.

Picture's final hour is steeped in apocalyptic imagery, tragic pop mythology and effective cross-cutting, as Yoda takes on the Chancellor at the same time Anakin/Vader engages in ferocious combat with Obi-Wan.

Resolution of the latter is significantly gorier than anything previously seen in the "Star Wars" sextet, thereby earning the series' first PG-13 rating. It also results in the transfixing final metamorphoses of Anakin into the black hooded-and-caped Vader unseen since the initial trilogy, an emergence dramatically contrasted with the birth of the twins.

Entertaining from start to finish and even enthralling at times, "Sith" has some acting worth writing home about, specifically McDiarmid's dominant turn as the mastermind of the evil empire. McGregor remains a steady presence, and both Portman and Christensen have loosened up since "Clones" to acceptable, if hardly inspired, levels. Expressiveness of the digitally animated Yoda, voiced as always by Frank OzFrank Oz, is amazing.

The technical achievement here is on such a high level that one is lulled into taking it for granted. Neither of the digitally shot recent episodes has looked consistently great, but this one does.

Perhaps this is the moment to remember it was the original "Star Wars," modest budget and all, that forever raised the bar and set the standard for the new generation of special and visual effects (a taste of "Star Wars" decor is provided by a reproduction of the gleaming white interior of the escaping Jedis' spacecraft). Composer John Williams also seems to have put extra effort into his virtually continuous score, which increasingly invests familiar themes with darker and richer tones.

a (surprisingly) positive review from Harry at AICN:

STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH review
I have watched my last new STAR WARS film.

Really don’t know what to say. I’ve wanted to see Obi-Wan fight Vader on that Lava Planet since that issue of Starlog in 1978. My 6 year old reading comprehension grasping for every word of every article I could get my grubby little hands on. For me, the origin of Vader has been the Holy Grail of my geek soul. That story most coveted, but yet untold. I’m 33 years old now. 27 years lay between me and that boy that dreamt of that fight – but right now, he’s on my shoulders and we’re slapping high-fives.

The imagery in REVENGE OF THE SITH -- The turning of Anakin, the annihilation of the Jedi, the expulsion of Yoda, Obi-Wan vs Anakin, Palpatine revealed, the birth of the twins, Alderran, the adoption of Luke, what became of the droids… These are all near religious iconography in the minds of children raised in the ways of the Force. I’ve spent a quarter of a century discussing these things, speculating on what it’d look like, how it’d play out… I’ve seen it in countless dreams, but never with my eyes open. Never George’s dream of what it was. Till now.

As I sat at the Regal Metropolitan Theater in South Austin watching the film – I couldn’t help but get caught up in it. Dad was there with me, we’ve spent countless years talking STAR WARS – through STAR WARS – I learnt of the source material George was smashing and grabbing from – B serials, Pulp sci-fantasy adventure romances, Asian cinema – all of it. Before STAR WARS – I was well on my way – after STAR WARS the road was poured. I would be a geek for the rest of my life.

That would mean, I’d be primed to openly weep as Yoda crawled through that damn crawlspace to escape, during the whole of Obi-Wan and Anakin’s fight and the death of Luke & Leia’s mother. It is a very powerful thing to see the dreams one has spent a quarter of a century pondering. It might be cheese ball of me, but dammit – this is exactly what I wanted out of this last STAR WARS film… closure.

I’m having a really hard time writing about this one. It’s just so damn big. So full of literally everything that I wanted to see in all the prequels – but crammed all into this one. This really is the big Michael Corleone episode of STAR WARS… It’s where all the traps are sprung, all the cards are laid on the table, where everybody dies, all is lost and evil rules the galaxy.

That’s what makes the film so damn hard to talk about, at least off a first viewing. Let me see if I can explain this.

We all know how dark this film is intended to be. We all know how incredibly dire things will turn out in this film. However, the first 40 minutes are so light… as to be completely disconcerting. There’s just a feeling that THEY shouldn’t be having fun. Don’t they know this is the last smiles they’ll share? That when Obi Wan goes on that last mission and Anakin wishes him well… that that’s the last time they would be friends… Don’t they know that? WE DO, why can’t they see what’s coming? WAKE UP!

The film makes you powerless to change things. It’s like sitting still for a ****ing tragedy right from the get go, but unlike TITANIC, you don’t have it all spelt out yet. Unless you’ve read all the spoilers – and I don’t really know what you spoiler-lovers will think. Just because for me… I knew, basically, what was going to happen. The broad strokes. I’ve gone out of my way to ignore as many spoilers as possible – which is a near impossible thing to do when you’re being emailed by everyone on Earth 300 images a day, 40 reviews a day now and were sent all the books, comics, score, everything from Publicity firms… shit… I bought that Talking Yoda toy – and next thing I know the little Green Bastard is trying to tell me the story of REVENGE OF THE SITH. It’s so hard to be pure on this – there’s just so much information out there. Everywhere.

The most shocking or surprising emotion I felt during this film experience is that… I don’t want Anakin to become Darth Vader. I just… Despite 27 years to the contrary, as I sat in that theater watching the last act of a good Jedi that turned evil… I just found myself wanting to scream at him to stop. I wanted desperately to send him on that mission with Obi Wan. I wanted Mace Windu to put his hand on Anakin’s shoulder and say, “Come on Kid, Let’s finish this!” and march off as brother Jedi to kill the ****ing Emperor. I wanted Anakin to let go of his hate, fear, ambition, jealousy and self-centered egotism and just be the knight in shining armor… FOR THE GOOD GUYS!

You can tell… Anakin so wants to do what is right. He even does the right things, it’s just everyone around him doesn’t treat him as an equal… save for Palpatine. That when push comes to shove, the only ****ing rat bastard in the galaxy that is going to call him son, tell him ‘fairy tales’ and really listen to his problems enough to find out what is REALLY troubling him is the bad guy!

Why?

Because the whole damn galaxy is at war, because to everyone else, Anakin’s existential crisis doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, they’ve got bigger fish to fry. They’ve got to Protect Wookies and the mushroom people and Hellraiser’s home planet and kill lots of robots and General Grievous and police the ****ing universe… and… and… well, their damn domestic policy sucks!

The Bad Guy has his priorities right. He’s controlling the robots, the clones and to a large extent the Jedi… yet still manages to multi-task enough to listen to Anakin and help him deal with his premonitions of personal tragedy. He'll take the time, to ignore an amazing science fiction zero G Esther Williams number, to tell young Skywalker a SITH LEGEND. A story, an anecdote. And he tells it, like a father would to a son. And the story is directly related to the problem Anakin is facing, it gives him hope, direction and the first glimmer of a happy ending to his concern. He doesn’t tell Anakin bullshit like… learn to not give a shit, detachment is the key to inner peace… What sort of bullshit is that? Ignore your problems, betray those you love, watch everyone you care about die – and just be happy cuz they’re food for the force, which you manipulate… and everyone’s death will just make you more powerful. WHAT SORT OF ****ING JEDI WISDOM IS THAT SHIT YODA??? THAT'S NOT REALLY HELPFUL YOU NEGATIVE GREEN TURD!

cont...

My god. The Jedi really are a bunch of goody two shoe clueless ****s. They’re so concerned with fixing the galaxy’s problems that they don’t have time for their own… and due to their unrealistic and inhumane rules about not loving or caring about anything other than the almighty “force” they created an air of fear for Skywalker. How could he level with them? How could he share with them? By the time Obi Wan finds out Anakin and Padme have kids on the way… it’s too late. That ship has sailed. Everyone is so busy being good little soldiers, that they just are not communicating.

Obi Wan never takes Anakin out for drinks and just levels with him. Sits him down and explains fascist totalitarianism. He doesn’t explain why sacrificing the most marginal freedoms to create a false sense of security enables those taking on those additional powers to create a greater evil than that which they fear. Hell, nobody really explains to Anakin why Democracy is better than Absolute Rule. Instead it is all this, “Search your feelings” bullshit. Turn to your ancient religion. This is why ultimately Luke Skywalker kicks ass. Because he doesn’t have all this dogmatic bullshit. Because he’s got a buddy like Han Solo that’d be willing to bust ass across the galaxy to save his ass. Somebody that has his back. FRIENDS! Because when the Sith hits the fan, it’s the love of your friends that’ll help you push through and kick ass. Because Luke believes in twin sunsets, the good guys and saving his dad.

What does Anakin have? Who cares about Anakin? Well Obi Wan, but he doesn’t know how to show it. Yoda? He’s too busy being disturbed about the cosmic meaning of shit to even form a no bullshit non fortune cookie sentence. Mace Windu? He’s got his head so far up his ass it ain’t funny. Padme? She’s more concerned with her hair, her image, everybody’s standing and well being. And then Anakin himself? He’s told he’s the chosen one, the key that will make the galaxy unified. Yet, the only one empowering him to do that is the ****ing Emperor.

I love how together Palpatine is. He’s just one of the greatest bad guys in the history of bad guys. He absolutely must be Karl Rove’s hero. Look at this. Palpatine has engineered so many things. The creation of the Droid armies, the creation of the Clone armies, his various Sith apprentices, Fall guys for Fall guys… all with the direct purpose of spreading his enemy so thin, that no matter their powers, when he calls ORDER 66… they’ll never see it coming. It’s like inviting your friends over for an all night session of game play and spreading cyanide on the ****ing pizza. They’re all gonna eat it, cuz… dude… it’s what you do when you play games. The Jedi are fighting their war, doing Jedi shit. Kill the droids, tons of them. This shit is fun for them. They eat it up. This is their Frosted Flakes with Bananas. They finally got their Holy Crusade, woo hoo, a sense of purpose. They never think twice about all them ****ing Boba Fetts watching their backs.

It’s so beautifully laid out. It’s ****ing immaculate. This is literally how you rule the universe. It is to be admired. And learnt from. Cuz as Padme says, “This is how Democracy ends, with Thunderous Applause.” Exactly. Distractions, a clear and concise innocent front and cutthroat evil behind the scenes.

REVENGE OF THE SITH is a masterpiece. The final piece of the puzzle Lucas first presented me at age 6. 27 years later, the Jigsaw is complete and damn if it isn't just damn near the most tragically cool thing I’ve ever seen put to film. We won’t see another like this. This is it.

We’ll see enormous sci-fantasy told, with more focus and even grander visions in our lifetime… but we’ll never care as much about a story like this one. For our generation, Star Wars is our mythology. The big story we lived to see told the first time. For those of you that were kids in lines in 1977 through to the coming weeks… I have to say, it has been an absolute ****ing honor to do this with y’all.

We all know where we each were at the opening of all these films. In two weeks… this is your last story. I’ll never see a new Star Wars movie with my father again. I’ll see many more movies – but this is the last Star Wars, I’ll ever see for the first time with my dad. I’ve seen all 6 with him. All on either the first day – or before. It’s the mythology he’s grown old with and helped me grow up with. This one counts, this one is beautiful. This is the last one.

I can’t possibly express how profoundly odd that is to type. How weird it makes me feel. I went out after the film – I went to find a toy to sit on my desk to look at while I typed this. I went through aisle after aisle of Star Wars stuff, and I couldn’t pick something out. I think the one I most thought was cool – was this Lego play set of Anakin and Obi Wan on Mustafa. You pressed down the Lego character’s head and the light sabers lit up. Gosh that’s cool. I’ll probably buy it for my nephew… Instead I came home, played the score to REVENGE OF THE SITH and wrote this.

Remember – this isn’t a Star Wars movie to cheer for, to erupt into applause and call cool. If you really love STAR WARS – this one is heart ache. Not only is it the end of a nearly 30 year journey for us… It really is the story of how things got so bad, that the good guys had to be a rebellion, where the Jedi had to hide and how evil ruled the galaxy. Wow, I’ve seen my last new Star Wars film. ****.

Yeah, and I think generally Harry Knowles is a good reviewer. But man, we're definately hearing that its

1: the best prequel
2: the darkest star wars film
3: better than Return of the Jedi

All the reviews I've read so far have basically said this, and mostly everyone is loving it.

Those last reviews are good to here, especially the last one. He really sells the emotional part of the movie.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_3/

Here's a great site for movie reviews. There's 6 reviews for Star Wars on there so far, and each one is good!

Originally posted by Sith Master X
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_3/

Here's a great site for movie reviews. There's 6 reviews for Star Wars on there so far, and each one is good!

Wow, that last review on there was the first time anyone has hated Ian's performance.

They where all good reviews except that last one, and the one I couldnt read because the idiot didnt understand how to use paragraphs.(letters everywhere)

be sure to check out bill hunt's reveiw on www.thedigitalbits.com

Thanks TLB

This one part has me thinking.

And there are two new bits of particularly interesting information that we're given in Sith - things that I have to say came as a bit of a surprise to me. The first is given almost in passing in the middle of the film, and not everyone I spoke with after the screening caught it. The second comes very near the end. Both will force you to reconsider the complete saga in something of a new light.

Spoiler:
I think the one he talks about at the end is either Vader's plan to take over or his killing Padme(though that has become almost a given)

Wow, it's got a 90% at Rottentomatoes out of 10 reviews all ready. Man, I'm surprised how good it's getting reviewed. I mean, I thought it was going to get better reviews then the last two, but it's amazing how many good ones I have seen. I don't think I've seen one yet that has been bad.