STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005) - May 20, 2005
Awesome. Super awesome. Super mega awesome. This is easily the best of the prequel trilogy and certainly right up there with the originals. The opening space battle - beginning with an impressively long shot - was really exciting and certainly the best one from this trilogy (though it still can't touch the one from ANH or, the best one of all, the one from ROTJ). General Grievous made for a good villain, though I'd like to know what his deal was (he seemed to be some sort of part man / part machine, but they didn't go into that at all). Then of course there was Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine, who gave what had to be one of the best bad guy performances of all time. He was just so sinister, and the scenes where he's manipulating Anakin are among the best in the movie. Ewan McGregor was equally good as Obi-Wan, and seemed to be channeling the spirit of Alec Guiness. And Hayden Christensen was really good as Anakin, whose descent to the dark side was treated really well. Everything about this movie was really good. It was certainly the darkest of the Star Wars films, from the execution of all the Jedi to Anakin's horrible disfigurement and transformation into Darth Vader. I particularly liked the way it bridged this trilogy to the Original Trilogy, with all the little references and what not. The final scene of the movie, in which baby Luke is given to his parents on Tatooine, was so good it brought a tear to my eye (I'll also admit that I got a little choked up during the scene in which the twins were born; there was just something special about actually seeing Luke and Leia being born). I'm really looking forward to seeing this again. ****
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