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Well, let's start with the good thing. The pace is quite good, for a long movie as this one, it had to be important that the audience wouldn't get bored and I think they managed it pretty well. Now, the singing is great, great vocal performances. Ok, now let's get into the thing that is the most upsetting to me...the visuals! This movie looks horrible. A lot of shots in this movie are overexposed, which kills contrast and color on image. Also, I can't understand why blockbusters like these keep using that much CGI, it clearly looks fake and has no magic to it. I mean, the aesthetic of The Wizard of Oz is actually far more interesting that this one.... Another thing that didn't got to me was the narrative and the emotions it was supposed to get along. It's so dry and simple, that I don't really feel something, everything seems so superficial, even for the scenes that aren't meant to feel that way. Ultimately, the singing is quite great, but the songs aren't very memorable and most of them are quite forgettable if I'm being honest. So yeah, that's it, an entertaining movie, but far from being good, it simply is a mediocre entertaining movie.

It's a mess. But let's start with the good things, some visual ideas are great, especially the "colosseum" sequence and most of statues or architectural related shots. That was it, the rest is messy and rushed. First of all, the purpose of this movie, feels like a collection of ideas on different topics as love, populism, the elites, injustice, police brutality, utopia, the future of humankind, the future of the US...etc. Now, I think that all the ideas Coppola collected have made it very complicated to dedicate enough time to actually any of them for them to be interesting and developed. Everything this movie shows seems "childish" and rushed, not one single idea is developed and uses time to explain itself. He basically introduces us to something new and then immediately goes on to the next topic, without letting the movie the time it would require to develop and to introduce questions it would later answer. This leaves us with a movie that is filled with ideas that feel undercooked and one end message that naively tries to answer to all the topics. Now, the most problematic thing about the use of time in this movie is that there are tons of characters that are useless to the story, dustin hoffman's character is a joke, Cesar's "murdered" wife is given quite much time on screen, but it feels like a waste of time. The rivalries in the movie seem very forced and that makes it tough to get interested in them. The actors at some points feel lost to, as if they did not really know if what they were doing made any sense. Not one single character is interesting because none are developed enough for it.

To end all this, i'm sure that if Coppola had made this movie earlier it would have been much better, less messy and better written, I think at 85 years of age, one just wants to communicate everything learned, and that is how this movie feels, over 2 hour long depiction of ideas...what a shame, it could have been one of the best movies of the century !

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.