The saga is complete and ended in a huge way.

Well here it is! The film we have been waiting for approximately 20 years: how Anakin turned to the dark side and what happens with Obi-Wan and Yoda. After its two predecessors The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones were decent but not brilliant, expectations were high because obviously it is the last Star Wars film and is the most crucial one but expectations were low at the same time because the first two prequels didn't live up to the original trilogy. However, when I watched it I almost instantly loved it! Yeah, there was like one or two flaws but there is no denying that for me it certainly lived up to the originals.


I mean, it is a great dialogue with some great action effects, a lot of emotional drama, mind-blowing music score and even very intense which is something that a Star Wars film hasn't really expressed before until now. Because Episodes I and II didn't really show anything crucial, it was all down to Revenge Of The Sith and with all this pressure on the shoulders of George Lucas and the actors within the film, I think that they pulled it off really well! I mean, it is clever how the story forms together from the prequels at the start and ends where all the characters who were in A New Hope started in that film. Admittedly, there were only two flaws: Hayden Christensen wasn't brilliant as Anakin. I mean, yeah he improved in this one but could have been better. Other flaw being that this was simply overloaded with CGI effects. I don't think there was one shot where there was no CGI involved. Obviously times have changed and there are going to be new effects but not in literally every single shot of the film. Still gets 5-stars from me despite those two flaws.


Set 3 years after Attack Of The Clones and the Clone War is still going on. Revenge Of The Sith begins immediately in action where Chancellor Palpatine has been abducted by alien-robot creature General Grievous and Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are both assigned to rescue him. They manage to do so and arrive back on Coruscant which leads to him reuniting with Padmé and learning of her pregnancy. One night, Anakin has nightmare visions of Padmé dying in childbirth and fears that this will become real like the last nightmares about his mother came true in Attack Of The Clones. As time goes on and because he is so desperate to save Padmé, he becomes more and more tempted to succumb to the dark side (without knowing that his is really a scheme by Palpatine to turn Anakin over to destroy all Jedi including Obi-Wan).


Well, in The Phantom Menace we didn't really see very much of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan, in Attack Of The Clones he was good and in Revenge Of The Sith he did a brilliant job! I mean, in the first 10 minutes of the film he was bad but after that, he did really well and I personally think he did reach the late Sir Alec Guinness's level at portraying Obi-Wan. Natalie Portman improved a lot in this one as Padmé! I think the level of the chemistry between her and Anakin was about right because it wasn't soppy romance where they'd slowly fall in love but there was drama added to that which made me like the bond between them both this time. Hayden Christensen doesn't deliver an amazing performance but it was an improvement to his performance in Attack Of The Clones. One bit of credit that I have got to give him is that he perhaps had a lot on his shoulders playing a confused Anakin and then becoming a psychotic, deranged Darth Vader and Anakin/Vader is a very iconic character! Then again, an even worse actor could have played him (Orlando Bloom, Zac Efron or Robert Pattinson for example). Ian McDiarmid was just fantastic as Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious! Well, we all knew from the start of The Phantom Menace that Palpatine is Darth Sidious but it was really suspenseful in the scenes with him and Anakin. When he was revealed to all that he was Darth Sidious and the one Sith Lord, he went on to a different level of acting and had this rasping voice, really evil cackling laugh and looking just revolting in appearance (like he does in Return Of The Jedi). Also, General Grievous was a great villain for me too. What we see of General Grievous is what we should have seen of Darth Maul but more! I mean, I like General Grievous but Darth Maul is a Sith Lord and we needed him more involved but obviously not.


After his lame directing in The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones, George Lucas shows us what he really can do and how to make a true Star Wars film (even though the franchise is his creation anyway). The music perhaps is the best quality the Star Wars saga has had and I did like how they mixed music from the two prequels and some from the originals. The script was a lot better this time but there were some moments that were a bit forced (maybe that is because of some acting more than the words in the script).


Overall, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith is an absolutely amazing finale to one of the most successful franchises of all time. To be honest, I don't think they could have thought of a better story to end it. It is an epic film that I think certainly lives up to the original trilogy and it makes The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones like very cheap student films and were written by amateurs. Just amazing!