00s Movie Review - Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Director: George Lucas
Genre: Action/ Adventure/ Fantasy/ Science Fiction
Runtime: 140 minutes
Year: 2005
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Frank Oz, Kenny Baker, Jimmy Smits, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Keisha Castle-Hughes

Description: Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) from Count Dooku (Christopher Lee). As Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) pursues a new threat, Anakin (Hayden Christensen) acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy.

Review: Twenty eight years after “A New Hope” was released and changed cinema forever, George Lucas released “Revenge of the Sith”. With one mediocre and one bad film in the new trilogy, it’s safe to say that “Revenge of the Sith” is the better one in this series. Although Anakin’s transformation to Darth Vader doesn’t convince completely, seeing Vader in his totality and hearing that breathing feels like coming home .
Three years after the battle of Geonosis, the Clone Wars are coming to an end. Obi-Wan, now an accomplished Jedi-Master, gets the task to take out the leaders of the separatists: Count Dooku and General Grievous. During his absence, his apprentice Anakin falls prey to the temptations of the darks side of The Force. As Sith Lord he pleads allegiance to Chancellor Palpatine and helps him to form the Republic to the Galactic Empire. Obi-Wan has no choice to confronts his apprentice in a duel, which will change the universe forever.
Even the biggest “Star Wars” fans know that “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones” never live up to the original trilogy. Neither does “Revenge of the Sith”, but still people looked forward to it. I guess us “Star Wars” fans are very forgiving. And it feels like in this final film, George Lucas is feeling more comfortable. The acting is better, where Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine steals the show. And I think all the nerd hearts started beating faster when we see Darth Vader being ‘born’.
But somehow the transformation from Anakin to Darth Vader isn’t all we hoped for. It suffers from the bratty kid we met in “The Phantom Menace” and the winey and poorly acting teen we saw in “Attack of the Clones”. This way it’s really hard to take the more adult Anakin in “Revenge of the Sith” seriously. The same goes for the relationship between Anakin and Padmé, which sometimes still feels cringeworthy. And Hayden Christensen, although better, is still not a good actor.
All those critical notes aside, it’s still a pretty spectacular space adventure and the best film in the second “Star Wars” trilogy.

Rating: 3,5/ 5