Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith

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The movie is the best Prequel Trilogy movie, and it was a positive surprise. Johnny Williams's score was good as always, and all those cues were just wonderful. Force theme was used a lot, and many other familiar themes could be heard from all the five previous Star Wars movies (not to mention two bigger themes for this movie: Battle of the Heroes and Grievous's theme). It isn't as good as the Empire Strikes Back, but it was still an enjoyable movie.

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The beginning with the Force theme playing and those great visuals was just fantastic, and later on the movie just became even more intense. Some battles were too short, unfortunately. I would've wanted the Grievous battle and Dooku battle take a little while longer, but they were defeated quite quickly. Oh well. A positive surprise was the Mace vs. Palpy battle, and the final battles between Obi and Ani and Palpy and Yoda were just marvellous. My dreams came true when I heard both Imperial March and Duel of the Fates during the two final duels (Ani vs. Obi and Palpy vs. Yoda), not to mention the fantastic Battle of the Heroes playing there as well.

The Jedi massacre scene (when the clone troopers kill both the Jedi in the temple and in other worlds) was very emotional and had that beautiful choral "Anakin's Betrayal" playing there. The scene when Obi-Wan tells Padmé that he has to go and kill Anakin was very heartbreaking with the latter part of "Anakin's Dark Deeds" playing, and "The Immolation Scene" was a perfect piece of music for the scene when Anakin is burning and shouts "I hate you!" to Obi-Wan after their duel.

Grievous was a nice villain although an underdeveloped one, but he made his presence known, and I liked that coughing. I was expecting his MagnaGuards (the ones with those staffs that could block lightsabres) to be more dangerous, but they were okayish nevertheless. Palpatine was just horrible in this movie, which meant Ian McDiarmid did his job well in portraying the evil Sith Lord. Anakin using Force to choke Padmé was an interesting scene, not to mention that clever idea of showing Vader on the operating table and at the same time showing Padmé giving birth to the twins. I didn't actually expect to hear the Naboo funeral theme when Vader finds out that he was responsible for Padmé's death, but that just made the scene even more emotional. And it was nice to hear James Earl Jones for that short amount of time.

Hayden Christensen actually acted better than in Attack of the Clones, at least in my opinion. Natalie Portman did a good job too, although at times she was too wooden, but for some reason Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan didn't act as emotionally as he should've in some of the scenes. For example, the scene where he finds out that Anakin was behind the Jedi temple massacre should've been a shocker, but he just had that dull expression on his face. I would've expected him to collapse or do something dramatic than just stand there, not knowing what to do. He was emotional enough during the immolation scene, though, so that was nice. Plus there are very few scenes where we see Jar Jar, and we see Lucas in a cameo role, so that's nice.

The ending was pretty much what I expected to be, and that final scene with the Binary Sunset (and Force theme playing) was a nice way of ending the Star Wars saga in a hopeful note just as in ESB, even though RotS is a very dark movie. Two scenes were missing, and I would've wanted to see them: one with Mon Mothma (the woman leading the Rebellion in Return of the Jedi) and about her not liking Palpy, and the other one was Yoda talking to Qui-Gon (it was only hinted at this movie, but I think they did film the conversation scene and might have it in the deleted scenes in RotS video and DVD).It was nice to see younger Tarkin and the construction site of the Death Star, though.

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All in all, Revenge of the Sith is a good movie in my opinion and the best Prequel Trilogy movie, although it doesn't stand a chance against Empire Strikes Back. RotS has a great score, wonderful and memorable scenes, tragedy and darkness all around, and nice special effects. It's a good bridge between the gap that separates Episode 3 and Episode 4, and it does its job well. I enjoyed watching this movie, and it's a nice farewell to the Star Wars saga story-wise, visually and musically.