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Now that the third installment of the second trilogy is in, we can see why George Lucas wanted to revisit his "Star Wars" saga. He had a great idea about how Darth Vader became Darth Vader. It was a sophisticated idea, because it didn't involve one ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
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Tony Medley
Well, we finally get to learn
how Darth Vader got to be Darth Vader in this, the final theatrical Star
Wars movie. Even though the movie includes a delicious turn as a bad guy
by Ian McDiarmid, who plays Supreme Chancellor ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Tony Medley
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A long time ago, the story of the Jedi and "the Force" began. It comes full circle in the long-awaited final chapter (of the middle of the story). Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is stretched to his limits helping to end the clone ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at The Movie Chicks
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Call it the critics' war over Star Wars. Seldom have reviews clashed as remarkably as they have with Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith. Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post praises director George Lucas not only for the remarkable special ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at ShowBIZ Data
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Everything that has a beginning has a middle - and while this centerpiece to the 'Star Wars' saga may indeed be middling, it still beats 'Return of the Jedi' anyday. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Movie Gazette (Anton Bitel)
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Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
George Lucas knows how to tell a good story. His biggest problem is having the characters speak. Everything sound extremely cheesy and wooden and it makes the characters suffer. However, when Lucas decides to let the character's actions speak, things ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
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interesting —because he started out good and, at some point, turned down a dark path from which he could not return. In this sense, he is decidedly Shakespearean—more Macbeth than Hannibal Lecter (the comparison to Shakespeare is an apt one ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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Well done, George. Well done. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Screen Rant (Vic Holtreman)
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George Lucas's third installment of the second trilogy of prequels (the sixth film that began in 1977) brings allegedly to an end the popular sci-fi saga and money-making franchise, a vehicle that has been running out of steam for quite some time though ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
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All good things must come to an end, and all sort-of mediocre things eventually peter out, too. And so we're faced with the third Star Wars prequel, Revenge of the Sith, simultaneously the most anticipated and dreaded film of the summer. Nearly a decade o ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
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Far and away the best of the Star Wars prequels (tough chore, that) and also holds its own with the hallowed films of the original trilogy. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
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Star Wars really does begin here. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Empire (Colin Kennedy)
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Lucas manages to turn the audience's familiarity to his advantage: like a jigsaw puzzle whose final form has always been known, the fun is in discovering how the last pieces fit. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Newsweek (David Ansen)
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There’s a wonderful running gag in the BritCom Spaced, which, should you be so unlucky to have not yet caught an episode, features tow-headed Simon Pegg (of Shaun of the Dead) as Tim Bisley, a down-on-his-luck twentysomething film and comic-book geek ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
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For a movie concluding a story spread across three films, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is so busy that its preferred medium perhaps would be several half-hour installments rather than the heavily rushed moral tragedy told through a ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
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In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy's dad (Sean Connery) tells him, "You left home just when you were getting interesting." That's how I feel about these new Star Wars movies. Only now, as they are ending, did Lucas manage to recapture a hint of ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)
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Anyhow, the bottom line is that I liked the film quite a bit. I'd call it the best of the three, and close to the level of Empire. But that's just my take. Reasonable people may differ. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at DVD Verdict (Dave Ryan)
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The broad arc of the Star Wars saga, through nearly 30 years and six movies, also fits well in the history of America during that same period. We've come from the aftermath of the seemingly endless Vietnam war to peace, and then back to endless war ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
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For anybody who lives in Outer Mongolia or somewhere away from the spotlight of mass publicity, Revenge of the Sith is the third and last of the Star Wars prequels and what looks like to be the very last of the Star Wars films. (Although one ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
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Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith opens with a sequence that is — for me at least — literally breathtaking. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker pilot two small fighters through an overwhelming array of other ships and enemy droids to ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Pajiba (Jeremy C. Fox)
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Un vaisseau apparaît dans le panoramique réglementaire suivant le texte déroulant. Une immense bataille spatiale fait rage dans le ciel de Coruscant, la planète administrative de la République. George Lucas impose d’emblée sa vision apocalyptique ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at filmdeculte.com (Liam Engle et Nicolas Plaire)
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Because it's Star Wars, man. The last one (I hope), the end to a saga that has captured the imaginations of billions, whether they were alive when A New Hope came out or have seen the films only in George Lucas's bastardized redigitalizations. Lucas, ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at IMDB.com
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
For all its doom and gloom, Revenge of the Sith turns out to have a happy ending after all, giving Star Wars the send-off it deserves. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
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Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the SithAlmost 30 years ago, George Lucas tapped into the power of the Force to craft a Star Wars saga so imaginative and steeped in ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Palo Alto Online (Susan Tavernetti)
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On the action-adventure level it's a sure-fire delight for fans, a punchy entertainment for average sci-fi buffs, and a colorful rocket-ride for moviegoers who just want a good time on Saturday night. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Arguably the darkest episode in the entire series (and the first to carry a PG-13 rating) the visually stunning "Sith" is also the fastest-paced and most accessible. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
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Still, one leaves the theater with a 30-year sense of closure and satisfaction. That’s a pretty good feeling, one you don’t often get at the movies. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
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Being that I was born in the same year the first Star Wars sequel, Empire Strikes Back, was released, it may be needless to say that I've grown up with the Star Wars films. I can fondly remember popping A New Hope into the VCR on a day home sick from ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Jesusfreakhideout.com Movie Reviews
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The first 20 minutes of Revenge of the Sith is one of the most exciting things you'll ever see projected onto a screen. It rivals the booby-trapped cave intro. to Raiders of the Lost Ark. It beats the infamous skinny-dipping opening scene that scared ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Juicy Cerebellum (Alex Sandell)
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As one of the few critics who does not malign Episode Iand Episode II, and in fact, one who enjoys them very much, it should come as no surprise that Episode III, the best of the Anakin Skywalker trilogy, met well with me. While most film series seem to l ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
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In Revenge of the Sith we discover that the Republic is falling apart and has sent its star general, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) to confront Separatists Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) and General Grievous (Matthew Wood). While the fall of the Republic ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at ReelTalk (Diana Saenger)
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The most energetic of the prequels, the only one at all worth watching. But that doesn't mean it is without the weaknesses that scuttled its pair of predecessors. Quite the contrary. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
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The battle sequences and lightsaber battles are gripping, and for every scene that doesn't deliver the goods, there's another that hums with surprising intensity. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
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Though Sith finally finds some life in the old saga, was it worth it in the end? Did we have to go through all that to get back where we ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)
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Two prequels' worth of scene setting pays off in the politically resonant Revenge of the Sith. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
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I have noticed that the tables have turned for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith though, and despite being obviously predictable, it did exactly what it set out to do…it brought the story around full ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Entertain Your Brain! (Shawn McKenzie)
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It’s third time lucky for George Lucas, who finally delivers a thrilling prequel, which enriches his masterpiece, Star Wars, and stands alone as a great film. Revenge of the Sith combines the special effects and action we crave in a sci-fi blockbuster, ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Mediasearch, Australia
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“Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” is a suitably grim and tragic end to the “Star Wars” prequels, more like “The Empire Strikes Back” than the “Holiday Special” that “Episodes I” and “II” resembled. The story of Anakin ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Worldwide DVD Forums - DVD Review
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A vast improvement over the previous two outings, but still and all, it's no "Star ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
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The one figure in Revenge of the Sith who taps the true spirit of Star Wars is Ewan McGregor: With his beautiful light, clipped delivery, he plays Alec Guinness' playfulness, making Obi-Wan a marvel of benevolent moxie. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
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Thank the movie gods this one is better than the two previous “Star Wars” films. It would have been sad and pathetic to have the franchise end not with a bang but with a whimper. The first two prequels earned a lot of ill-will with hardcore fans and ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at About.com (Rebecca Murray)
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Though it starts slowly, it lumbers toward greatness in the last third and restores him [Lucas] briefly to the top of his class. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
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And still the dialogue is astonishingly feeble, the acting unforgivably wooden. To paraphrase Yoda, the only creature with Âtruly human dimensions ever since Harrison Ford's cowboy-mechanic Han Solo departed the galaxy: Bored I am. ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
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I've been struggling to figure out how I feel about REVENGE OF THE SITH. It's of course "review-proof" because it is more event than movie, and as an event it was exciting and as a movie it was... well... flawed. It was like RETURN OF THE JEDI - half ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at DVD Verdict (Brett Cullum)
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But money-wise, it will still be a ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
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Here we are again, stuck to our seats watching another Star Wars film, but this time is supposed to be the last (we'll see). I'm not really surprised by the choices made with Episode III, given three things: Episode IV, Episode II, and Lucas' continued ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at That Cow (Andrew Bradford)
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What excitement! I structured my day around this screening of Star Wars. I even made sure to arrive over an hour early to find parking, to eat so I wouldn't get hungry, and use the bathroom, so I wouldn't have to slip out. And it wasn't just me, we all ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
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Perhaps Anthony Lane of The New Yorker said it best: Episode III is better than the previous two "only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion." And even then, of course, you end up dead anyway. One thing we've learned ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
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This was going to be it; the culmination of almost thirty years of "Star Wars" history. Finally, at long last, "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith." The transformation of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader comes to the big screen. This one had ...read the complete Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
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