Customer Reviews
Arghhh Lucas you bloody idiot - By: C. A. Hack, 19 Jun 2008 
Stop Anakin I have the higher ground yes but earlier we were jumping around like computer animated demented fleas!!!!!!!
Not my only complaint he killed a load of kids because he loved someone? hmm yes that didn't work
Yoda being a pansy who couldn't kill crap dracula Count Dooku then he got his arse kicked & ran away.
Forgive me but no wonder he started with episode four if the quality of writing on his previous efforts was this bad.
Suffice to say very disapointed also to say I bought the bloody thing still shame on me!!
the best star wars movie since empire strikes back - By: martin thomas, 06 Jun 2008 
better than the boring phamtom menace & the simply awful attack of the clones director george lucas has at last delivered a star wars movie the fans can shout about.
Well its Star Wars...what more can i say? - By: Cailin Mae Phoenix, 05 Jun 2008 My dad gave me the Star Wars Trilogy 4, 5 & 6 & I fell in love with them immediately. Just fantastic films! In fact they are so good that I could watch them over & over & over & still not get bored!!
The Phantom Menace was good but not as good as its predecessors. However in this movie, more than any of the others, you get to see the true power of the Jedi. I mean at the beginning when Obi Won & Qui gon(i think that's how its spelt!) have come to talk to the Ambassodors. The Ambassodors panic, they panic!! There's only two jedi! They've got thousands of droids adn stuff & they are frightened by TWO Jedis!! That for me shows the true power of the Jedi.
The second, Attack of the Clones, was brilliant, as alll the movies are anyway.
Right, Im now going to get on with the review for THIS movie now!! Heres me babbling on about the other movies & you wanted to read about this one!
Right...Revenge of the Sith:
It was amazing but not without faults. I don't reallly like Christian Hayden as an actor, but I feel he did a better job in this movie. Athough this movie was faulted, I still gave it 5 stars, because its Star Wars...it deserves five stars even if the film was filled with tu-tu wearing Jedis dancing around singing songs of the force!
On a more serious note, this movie was brilliant, especiallly the fight scene between Obi Won & Anakin, & I reallly enjoyed it & felt it did a good job at 'completing the circle' & I would recommend it to anyone. But it was quite a sinister movie in parts, so I would watch it first before you let any young children watch it.
However, this movie still doesn't beat the films 4, 5 & 6 & I remember thinking efore seeing this movie, that it wouldn't - no COULDN'T - anyway!
The acting was pretty good in this, as I said Christian Hayden was better in this movie, & The Emperor was excellent. Padme/Natalie Portman however was a bit whiny & I can't believe how much her charater has changed over the series.
All I can say now is Star Wars is a truly brilliant saga & I would give them five stars every time I watched them!
Lives up to expectations... unfortunately - By: M. Matthews, 05 Jun 2008 
Revenge of the Sith is undoubtedly the best of the 'prequel' movies, but that's like saying that cabbage tastes nicer than sprouts. There is still a mammoth gulf between this film & the original Star Wars movies.
There is, however, much here to enjoy. The tone is much darker than any of the other five Star Wars movie, & includes numerous dismemberings by lightsabre. Indeed it's a surprise that it wasn't slapped with a 15-certificiate. The visual effects are also an improvement over the previous two instalments, with the CG spaceships & characters actuallly looking almost real (although that creature that Obi Wan rides looks utterly ridiculous). There are some good lightsabre duels & action sequences, & it's great to see the Wookiees again, although their involvement is disappointingly brief. The acting is also a notch better, with Ewan McGregor & Ian McDiarmid both in good form. Natalie Portman is also more convincing this time around, although Samuel Jackson is spectacularly wooden. The movie also sounds great, thanks to another brilliant John Williams score & Ben Burtt's sound department.
But then there are the flaws. For one thing the plot is far too busy. The original Star Wars movies were beautifully simple, but Revenge of the Sith, as with its predecessors, is a mess. The characters spend the movie darting about from one planet to another, with the result that the film feels awkward & disjointed. If the original films might be described as taking a trip on a recently resurfaced motorway, Revenge of the Sith feels like driving on a concrete road in a council estate that hasn't been repaired in years.
The movie also suffers from too many silly moments. I've already mentioned the ridiculous creature that Obi Wan rides, but there are plenty of other examples. Personallly the sight of Yoda engaged in a lightsabre duel cracks me up every time, & for me the epic scrap between Obi Wan & Anakin is ruined by the sequence with them battling it out while perched precariously on pieces of metal junk floating on the lava river (actuallly I thought the backdrop to the duel was totallly unconvincing anyway).
While the dialogue is better than in the previous two movies, there are still plenty of clunky moments, notably whenever Anakin & Padme get touchy-feely. However what I also found annoying was the inclusion of catchphrases from previous movies (e.g. "Here's where the fun begins"). This was totallly unnecessary & I can't help wondering whether this was a desperate attempt by Lucas to make the audience connect with the original trilogy.
There are also countless plot holes. Why doesn't Obi Wan remember the droids? Why erase C-3PO's memory but not R2's? And why leave Luke with Owen & Beru - wouldn't that be the first place Vader would look for him?
However, the biggest problem with Revenge of the Sith is Hayden Christensen. He is undoubtedly better here than in Episode II, but most of the time he still comes across as a sulky teenager, & his falll from grace fails to convince. It is impossible to believe that this bland youth becomes one of the most memorable & menacing screen villains in screen history. And considering that is what this trilogy is alll about, that's a fairly major flaw!
The final few scenes of Episode III, though, are great, with Vader & the Emperor on the bridge of the star destroyer looking out at the Death Star, followed by the scenes on Alderaan & Tatooine with Leia & Luke delivered into the care of the Organa & Lars families. And the very last moment, with Owen & Beru watching the twin suns of Tatooine setting behind the horizon, reallly make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. If only the rest of the prequel trilogy had been like this...
AN EMPIRE RISES!! - By: Adam Jackson, 03 May 2008 Id have to say that this is my favourite of the saga.
Darker & more intense than the other episodes, this is light years beyond the simplistic narrative of the 1977 original.
Main highlight for me is the career defining performance of Ian McDiarmid as the evil Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine. Absoluteley OWNS this film!!
Hayden Christiansen is a very average actor but there was major improvement from Attack Of The Clones & the scenes with him & McDiarmid sparkle.
The plot is brilliant & the FX are superb. John Williams's score may just be the finest of alll 6 movies!
My favourite scenes are Order 66, where in true Night Of The Long Knives style, Palpatine eliminates the Jedi & consolidates his Empire & the final scenes where Palpatine, Vader & Tarkin oversee the construction of The Death Star from the bridge of an Imperial Star Destroyer. Class!
I absoluteley love the music to this scene too!
And lets not forget the graphic scenes of Vader's immolation & the extreme surgery as Palpatine's medical droids rebuild this tragic character into The Dark Lord...
There's some stunning lightsaber duels that are second only to The Phantom Menace in intensity. And the CGI work is way better than episodes 1 & 2.
2 things id recommend - read the novelisation, it offers some fascinating insights into the relationships of the Sith protagonists, Palpatine/Sidious, Dooku/Tyrannus & Skywalker/Vader that were not as detailed in the movie.
Also, any Metal/Rock fans might enjoy a video that i found on YouTube which is Metalllica's Master Of Puppets set to a montage of scenes from Star Wars (mostly episode 3) featuring Palpatine/Sidious. It goes reallly, reallly well, the lyrics & alll. The True Master Of Puppets!!
