The Force is with Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith
Heres my review of Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith. It has spoilers, so if you don't want to know, stop reading now.
The storyline was excellent. It begins with a great space fight, then it drags a little bit with some corny dialogue between Anakin and Padme, but picks up speed after Order 66 is given. Geaorge Lucas takes us on a emotional trip witnessing Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader. I do wish that they showed a little bit more of the process of how the injured, quad-limp armputee, burnt and severely disfigured Anakin Skywalker came to wear the black suit. A couple of other scenes I had hoped for but were not present in the final version were Yoda's exile to Dagobah and Qui-Gon. All in all, the storyline answered many questions and serves as a great prequal to A New Hope.
The acting was decent. Nothing deserving of an Oscar award but better than Phantom of the Menace and Attack of the Clones. Especially by Hayden Christensen, who in AOTC was very robotic and wooden. This time he put more emotion into his spoken words, instead of seemingly reading from a script. Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine/Darth Sidious delivered strong performances. Natalie Portman as Padme had a smaller but important role. Minus a few corny lines, she was decent. R2D2 kicked ass and provided for some funny moments.
The CGI and special effects were magnificent. Lots to see and hear. The initial space fight is amazing!
Now that the Star Wars story is complete, I realized that this is a story about Anakin Skywalker and his entire life. We saw him as a little boy in Menace, as a whining teenager in Clones, his transformation into Darth Vader in Sith and as the galaxy's evil menace in the Original Trilogy, leading up to his eventual redemption and death in Return of the Jedi. While ROTS may not be the best of the six movies, it is definitely the most pivotal.
I can't help but to feel sorry in a sense for Anakin. He has enormous pressure from Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace Windu and the Jedi Council to be the ultimate Jedi and fulfill the prophecy. Afterall, Anakin is supposely the Chosen One, a Jesus Christ like figure in the Star Wars world. At the same time he was secretly married to Padme, going against the Jedi code and living a lie. All this while Palpatine/Darth Sidious was feeding him lie after lie, manipulating him. Anakin is out of control, filled with anger from his mother's death and fear of losing Padme. Palpatine exploits all these private conflicts, coercing Anakin into becoming Darth Vader. Even when he became Vader, there was still some good in him. He knew what he was doing was wrong when he defended Palpatine and help to kill Windu, when he killed those young Jedi children and the Separatist leaders on Mustafar. Palpatine used and abused Anakin from the very beginning. The possibility even exists that Palpatine is Anakin's father, he did mention that he was so powerful in the dark side, that he could create life from metachlorians. In Menace, Qui-Gon discovered that Anakin had an extremely high metachlorian count. Possible, but it could be another lie.
The story of Anakin Skywalker's life is like that of a sad Greek tragedy. Filled with so much hope and promise, the young man had some enormous character flaws - ill tempered, anger, rage, fear, greed, impatience. He wants more power to save the one he loved but in the end kills her because of this power. He choose not to listen to Obi-Wan, Yoda and Mace but to Palpatine's lies. In the Original Trilogy, Darth Vader was a cold, killing machine. Now that the Prequel Trilogy is now complete, I see Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in a new light... a sad human is behind that helmet being controlled like a slave by Palpatine.
I give Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith a 8/10.
The storyline was excellent. It begins with a great space fight, then it drags a little bit with some corny dialogue between Anakin and Padme, but picks up speed after Order 66 is given. Geaorge Lucas takes us on a emotional trip witnessing Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader. I do wish that they showed a little bit more of the process of how the injured, quad-limp armputee, burnt and severely disfigured Anakin Skywalker came to wear the black suit. A couple of other scenes I had hoped for but were not present in the final version were Yoda's exile to Dagobah and Qui-Gon. All in all, the storyline answered many questions and serves as a great prequal to A New Hope.
The acting was decent. Nothing deserving of an Oscar award but better than Phantom of the Menace and Attack of the Clones. Especially by Hayden Christensen, who in AOTC was very robotic and wooden. This time he put more emotion into his spoken words, instead of seemingly reading from a script. Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine/Darth Sidious delivered strong performances. Natalie Portman as Padme had a smaller but important role. Minus a few corny lines, she was decent. R2D2 kicked ass and provided for some funny moments.
The CGI and special effects were magnificent. Lots to see and hear. The initial space fight is amazing!
Now that the Star Wars story is complete, I realized that this is a story about Anakin Skywalker and his entire life. We saw him as a little boy in Menace, as a whining teenager in Clones, his transformation into Darth Vader in Sith and as the galaxy's evil menace in the Original Trilogy, leading up to his eventual redemption and death in Return of the Jedi. While ROTS may not be the best of the six movies, it is definitely the most pivotal.
I can't help but to feel sorry in a sense for Anakin. He has enormous pressure from Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace Windu and the Jedi Council to be the ultimate Jedi and fulfill the prophecy. Afterall, Anakin is supposely the Chosen One, a Jesus Christ like figure in the Star Wars world. At the same time he was secretly married to Padme, going against the Jedi code and living a lie. All this while Palpatine/Darth Sidious was feeding him lie after lie, manipulating him. Anakin is out of control, filled with anger from his mother's death and fear of losing Padme. Palpatine exploits all these private conflicts, coercing Anakin into becoming Darth Vader. Even when he became Vader, there was still some good in him. He knew what he was doing was wrong when he defended Palpatine and help to kill Windu, when he killed those young Jedi children and the Separatist leaders on Mustafar. Palpatine used and abused Anakin from the very beginning. The possibility even exists that Palpatine is Anakin's father, he did mention that he was so powerful in the dark side, that he could create life from metachlorians. In Menace, Qui-Gon discovered that Anakin had an extremely high metachlorian count. Possible, but it could be another lie.
The story of Anakin Skywalker's life is like that of a sad Greek tragedy. Filled with so much hope and promise, the young man had some enormous character flaws - ill tempered, anger, rage, fear, greed, impatience. He wants more power to save the one he loved but in the end kills her because of this power. He choose not to listen to Obi-Wan, Yoda and Mace but to Palpatine's lies. In the Original Trilogy, Darth Vader was a cold, killing machine. Now that the Prequel Trilogy is now complete, I see Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in a new light... a sad human is behind that helmet being controlled like a slave by Palpatine.
I give Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith a 8/10.
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Tommy, first of all, awesome blog! I just hit random and ended up here. I saved it so I'll check back ;-)
I saw ROTS with wifey last weekend and generally felt it was a decent movie. Overall, I think Lucas should AT ALL COSTS avoid trying to write anything romantic. He absolutely shreds romantic plots to bits ;-) I thought the acting was typical Star Wars fare, mostly campy with some strong scenes mixed in. I do feel the actors sound like they are reading the script at times instead of acting, but Hayden was much better this time around.
The last 30 minutes of the movie were excellent (minus the cheesy Frankenstein-esque morph to Darth Vader's zoot suit). One touch that I absolutely loved was how they tied in the art from the original Star Wars and blended it in. For example, look at the interiors of the ships in the last few scenes. They matched identically to the opening scenes in SW IV, even down to the huge goofy buttons on the consoles and the orange and white motifs.
Anakin's fall from grace was very well done on screen, probably the best screenwriting of the series.
I'd give it a 6.5, but an 8.0 for the sheer nostalgia factor.
Also, I've got to get me one of those draconis/lizard mounts. NICE!
jaxe
Thanks Jaxe!
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