STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH -- George Lucas, dir

©2005
studio: 20th Century Fox
production company: LucasFilm
dir: George Lucas
cast: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits, Frank Oz, Anthony Daniels, Christopher Lee, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Silas Carson Jay Laga'aia, Bruce Spence, Wayne Pygram, Temuera Morrison
screenplay: George Lucas



The young boy, now a maturing adult Jedi turns to the Dark Side of the Force -- though with the best of intentions ... to save his wife's life. The Jedi become slaughtered by the turn-around of the Republic. Those Jedi that aren't killed scatter. The Republic becomes controlled by a senator who is actually the leading Sith lord and declares himself emporer.



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I admit to liking plots in which not all is at seems, and there are twists and turns, and as such, I enjoyed the changes in loyalty and the hard course in which we needed to pay attention to the situation with the clone army.

I also admit that I enjoyed the battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker, and the transformation of Anakin to Vader.

However...!

While I don't have a problem with the entire Dark Side relying on the committment of one man, and his committment comes because of his love for a woman, I did feel that Anakin was just too damned stupid to not see what he was doing. I never could accept his inability to see that he was stepping over the boundaries.

It is also nearly impossible for those of us who grew up with the original trilogy to put it aside and accept so much of this "first" trilogy. There were things that Lucas obviously felt he needed to include, but I also felt that he put too much of the original trilogy into the newer movies. Did he really have to tie R2-D2 and C3PO into these movies? They were a serious distraction and annoyance. And how the hell does Darth not recognize later the 'droids that he built and relied upon somuch as a youth?

Lots of food for thought here, and I believe I enjoyed this more than the second movie, and even recommend it. But it still doesn't compare to the thrill of the original series.