Star Wars: Episode III - Die Rache der Sith

Upon seeing Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith early this morning, I let it sink in all day to form my opinion. After all that thought, I concluded that this was a damn good movie... and probably my favorite of all 6 episodes (definitely of the episodes 1-3)!

One of the things I liked about this movie is the way it presents Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen). George Lucas made you believe that, although we know Anakin was evil, he did not believe himself to be evil. In fact, he thought he was doing the right thing, even though some of those things were undeniably wrong.

Also, many of the mysteries were finally answered. We all knew Anakin was Darth Vader, and that Vader was the father of Luke Skywalker and Leia, but now we know how and why they were separated. We also know how Darth Vader came about and why the need for the costume. All this and more!

A review of this movie would not be complete without mention of the spectacular special effects. Every shot in the movie is stunning and hard to look away from. The action starts from the very beginning and does not let up, except for some minor love scenes. The light saber battles between Anakin, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), Yoda, Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) and General Grievous were all done extremely well. Even R2-D2 got to kick some butt!

Overall, as you can probably tell, I loved this installment of the series. All of the questions were answered and was more action packed than I could have hoped for. Definitely recommended. 9.5/10

Simply put; it's not a perfect film, yet it is. It's from a simpler time. You can buy a 200 dollar meal from a swanky restaurant but your moms home cooking will always be better. That is ROTS.

The first two movies in the prequel trilogy weren't horrible, but had so many flaws. This one isn't as good as any movie in the original trilogy, but if you ask me it's pretty close. This one is actually very well done and special effects don't look so fake now and give us some really epic scenes, especially in a movie's climax that will keep you at the edge of your seat. Here, George Lucas proved that he can still do it and I was really satisfied with this movie. The acting was the best the prequel trilogy gave and Hayden Christensen isn't so wooden and annoying anymore. Here he's actually pretty cool and shows that he has potential, but Ewan McGregor remains the best part of the cast. You really believe him to be young Obi-Wan and that's very well done and he also has some very heartbreaking moments with Anakin at the end. One of the biggest flaws in the prequels was all those political conversations. Just lots and lots and lots of talking that makes you want to fall asleep, but thankfully, Lucas listened to his fans and it's reduced here. It's still present, of course, but not as much. Romance between Padme and Anakin is a little bit more believable here, but still not enough and that's one of the biggest flaws here, but the blame is more on Attack of the Clones in this case. Everything is executed very well and leading up to the original trilogy is very good, even tho it does create some plot holes, but in Star Wars you can explain almost everything with the Force. And one more good thing for Jar Jar haters, he appears for only like, a second. Hooray! But there is one more thing they messed up in the ending and I'm not gonna spoil anything but that one awful line (NOOOO!). While the first two movies in the prequel trilogy were disappointing, this one makes it all better. Not everyone will like it, but as a big Star Wars fan, I must say it's a nice and intense ending for the prequels.

Now this is how you end a trilogy and this is how you conclude a climax of one of the greatest sci-fi stories to be told.

There's things to criticise, yes, there's things that could have been improved, yes, but ultimately, George Lucas managed to give us a great end result that, at least to me, is one of the best sci fi movies ever made and certainly the second best, if not the best Star Wars Episode.

Now, some CGI hasn't aged well, we all know it, like for example all clones you'll see in the movies, they just look terrible, but some other still looks amazing, look at the end battle on Mustafar. Gosh the rendering of the environment of that planet is amazing. Also, the dialogues feel more adult and less goofy in comparison to both episode Lucas had made before (i'm referring to the prequels of course). Also, even if some of the acting performances still show to be bad (in a way), there's been some important improvement compared to Star Wars episode II.

This movie also has some depth in the confrontation between Jedi and Sith that has never been brought in any other Star Wars movie. You can understand why Anakin joins the Sith and what motivates Palpatine to be this evil. This movie shows us, what the similarities between Jedi and Sith are and ultimately shows us what the main differences are. It gives us context and gives us the reasons why you may join the dark side. What I mean by this is that, usually the Sith are evil because the script wants it, there's no real reason to it, look at the sequels, why does the first order handle they way it does, because they are evil, that's what we'll be told, but they ultimately lack of a realistic motivation, which makes those movies childish and boring. Now, in this movie, we get to know what Sith want, as Anakin says himself, and I believe Palpatine does too, they want to bring peace, justice and security. What differentiates them from the Jedi is that they want to obtain that, by having full control of the people and institutions, not letting any opponent exist and through an establishment of fear amongst people. This is similar to Hobbes' Leviathan in a way and gives this movie philosophical depth, at least to some degree. I know of course that the philosophical or political ideas aren't very complicated in this movie, but I like the fact that at least it gives you some food for thought, something that the sequels for example do not!

So I do certainly not understand why this movie is rated below Star Wars VII, please join me to fix this! (Also, this movie contains the two best fight scene from the entire Saga, Yoda vs Darth Sidious and Anakin vs Obi-Wan)

That's all folks.

I was on a Combat tour in Iraq ( OIF 2004-2005 ) I watched this film at the theatre of Camp Anaconda, I thought it was the best film of the three prequels