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Home Poetry Nook Articles Reviews - Books - Movies - Music Shero of The Month How To... Recipes Shero Links Submit Mailing List Guestbook Tell A Friend Staff FAQ	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of The Sith Director: George Lucas Genre: Star Wars IS* its own genre* Year: 2005 Reviewer: Puu (Of course, there's spoilers.) A sigh of relief could be heard all over the world last Thursday as the "final" installment of the Star Wars saga was released to the general public. There was a lingering fear that this new film, the keystone that fits in the last corner of the picture, would fall flat with the same lacklustre performance as the first chapter. But, thankfully, the final chapter did its job. In an effort to minimalize direct references for those who haven't seen it, I'm going to review general things about Revenge of the Sith. But let's be frank; just about every person in this galaxy knows more or less how this story ends; the Chosen One chooses the wrong team and the whole universe gets torn apart. Of course, it's the stuff leading up to that which is the main subject of Revenge. What I found most interesting is the "clawing-your-way-up-a-disintegrating-gravel-hill" approach to the real subject buried under the nifty sound effects; Good vs. Evil. The first three films were fairly clear cut in the way they presented the opposing forces. Luke's choices were fairly clear to the audience, even if they weren't to him; Darth Vader was clearly the bad guy until he regrew his heart; even when it seemed as if evil would win, we were sure it wouldn't. In this film, though, good and evil are actual real-life, every day choices left up to a man too young and weak of heart to know what to do; a man who tries to be what's expected, but never, for some reason, feels that he's good enough. Annikin's slide down the slippery slope to hell isn't quick. He walks down it, step by step, every time pulling himself closer to the choice where nobody wins. More than Annikin's fall from grace, the efforts of the few remaining Jedi to hold their world together were what I enjoyed the most. I saw some vague characters flesh themselves out and establish clear, awesome lines of ethical and moral fortitude. Watching them versus the badness of the Sith, it was a rather enjoyable film. To summarize my goods and bads of this film, I made a list: Good Jedi coming through, even though they failed Annikin fulfills his role in the circle of life The role of the rebellion is established by the Naboo emissary The clones prove much more clever (and accurate) than their StormTrooper descendants The Wookies fight like Scots Bad Palpatine's complete lack of subtlety in any single word he says Padme goes from butt-kicker in Episode II to whiny damsel in Episode III Dooku went down in less than 5 minutes Female Jedi went down without a fight Only 3 minutes of Darth Vader? 3? All in all, I was happy that all the missing connections between II and IV were dealt with in a satisfactory manner. Lucas says he's done, but keep in mind, kids; there are Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, and someone's going to film them. Because seeing Luke fall to the Sith is going to one day prove too much of a jem to ignore.
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of The Sith

Director: George Lucas
Genre: Star Wars *IS* its own genre
Year: 2005
Reviewer: Puu

(Of course, there's spoilers.)

A sigh of relief could be heard all over the world last Thursday as the "final" installment of the Star Wars saga was released to the general public. There was a lingering fear that this new film, the keystone that fits in the last corner of the picture, would fall flat with the same lacklustre performance as the first chapter. But, thankfully, the final chapter did its job.

In an effort to minimalize direct references for those who haven't seen it, I'm going to review general things about Revenge of the Sith. But let's be frank; just about every person in this galaxy knows more or less how this story ends; the Chosen One chooses the wrong team and the whole universe gets torn apart. Of course, it's the stuff leading up to that which is the main subject of Revenge. What I found most interesting is the "clawing-your-way-up-a-disintegrating-gravel-hill" approach to the real subject buried under the nifty sound effects; Good vs. Evil.

The first three films were fairly clear cut in the way they presented the opposing forces. Luke's choices were fairly clear to the audience, even if they weren't to him; Darth Vader was clearly the bad guy until he regrew his heart; even when it seemed as if evil would win, we were sure it wouldn't. In this film, though, good and evil are actual real-life, every day choices left up to a man too young and weak of heart to know what to do; a man who tries to be what's expected, but never, for some reason, feels that he's good enough. Annikin's slide down the slippery slope to hell isn't quick. He walks down it, step by step, every time pulling himself closer to the choice where nobody wins.

More than Annikin's fall from grace, the efforts of the few remaining Jedi to hold their world together were what I enjoyed the most. I saw some vague characters flesh themselves out and establish clear, awesome lines of ethical and moral fortitude. Watching them versus the badness of the Sith, it was a rather enjoyable film.

To summarize my goods and bads of this film, I made a list:

Good

Jedi coming through, even though they failed
Annikin fulfills his role in the circle of life
The role of the rebellion is established by the Naboo emissary
The clones prove much more clever (and accurate) than their StormTrooper descendants
The Wookies fight like Scots

Bad

Palpatine's complete lack of subtlety in any single word he says
Padme goes from butt-kicker in Episode II to whiny damsel in Episode III
Dooku went down in less than 5 minutes
Female Jedi went down without a fight
Only 3 minutes of Darth Vader? 3?

All in all, I was happy that all the missing connections between II and IV were dealt with in a satisfactory manner. Lucas says he's done, but keep in mind, kids; there are Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, and someone's going to film them. Because seeing Luke fall to the Sith is going to one day prove too much of a jem to ignore.