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Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of
the Sith
Release Date: May 19,
2005
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: George Lucas
Screenwriter: George Lucas
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen,
Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid, Jimmy Smits,
Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi violence and some intense images)
Official Website:
StarWars.com
Plot Summary: After three long years of
relentless fighting, the Clone Wars are nearly at an end. The Jedi Council
dispatches Obi-Wan Kenobi to bring General Grievous, the deadly leader of the
Separatist droid army, to justice. Meanwhile, back on Coruscant, Chancellor
Palpatine has grown in power. His sweeping political changes transform the
war-weary Republic into the mighty Galactic Empire. To his closest ally, Anakin
Skywalker, he reveals the true nature of power and the promised secrets of the
Force in an attempt to lure him to the dark side.
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5 Second Review:
Star Wars fans get ready. The wait is over. Non
fans won't like this movie anymore than they did the others. The best of
the first trilogy by far.
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Review By: Michael Larson
- Better than a cheese royale: buy one while its hot
This was a very good movie that could have been great. I
guess overall I am disappointed but that has more to do with my expectations
than the quality of the movie.
To me it had pacing and timeline problems especially toward the end of the
movie. The ending was really screwed up timeline wise and took what could have
made a much more powerful ending to go with the semi-happy ending.
The last scene of the movie was the sunrise scene when it should have been the
Luke and Leia going off to live and THEN the Darth Vader cutout scene with the
death star leading naturally into the next movies. Lucas sold out by putting
that scene before the end of the movie. The movie would have been much more
powerful simply by switching those scenes around and allowing that there was
some time passing in between. Instead we are forced to believe that in a 1 week
or so period Vader recovers and gets over his killing of his wife etc and starts
building a death star (which by the way there is no need for since there is no
rebellion yet) all before Luke and Leia are taken to their separate planets.
Duh!
Simple fix is to put a rebel planning scene in between the children arriving on
the planets and then the big finale dundundundun Vader and the death star.
The pacing was just strange as well. Here is Anakin fighting his dark side and
then in a snap he is Vader completely evil killing all the children etc. Instant
snap does not really fit the story line at all to me.
These are minor things overall it is a good movie, but I was expecting a little
more in the way of development and the movie did not need to be longer to
accomplish that at all. Take two minutes from each overly long battle scene and
use it for plot development and this movie could have been great. It was very
good though.
I think the one thing all fans have to deal with is the fact that when the first
star wars came out it was such a quantum leap over everything else at the time.
It is very hard to compete with that feeling of seeing that kind of quantum leap
in moviemaking. Compare Tron to the first Star Wars and you can see just how big
the leap was. I don't think that that can ever be duplicated and it really
created modern moviemaking as we know it today. Now Star Wars is just another
movie as far as effects etc. That's not a knock on this movie, just an
observation of why many are disappointed in comparison to the first set of
movies.
We would love to know what you think, sound off on the
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