To be perfectly honest, it's not a very good movie - falling somewhere in the middle of the series for me - primarily due to Hayden Christensen's performance as Anakin Skywalker, really hammering in the wounded, immature brat to some frustratingly irritating levels. But while our heroes experience the Republic's downfall as sudden collapse, we've seen its ruin slowly chipped away over a span of decades in bureaucratic games masterminded by Darth Sidious. As noted by Padmé, the death of democracy is a slow, painful process that ironically ends in a roar of applause. The third installment is ultimately the payoff to the constant world-building and debatable character development endured in the previous films. After suffering through two chapters of muddled political debates and mawkishly bad dialogue, the concluding chapter in the prequel trilogy arrives with the sort of visual excitement and imaginatively mesmerizing spectacle expected of the fantasy series. With Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas finally delivers on a Star Wars entry that feels like an actual Star Wars movie, something more in line with the franchise's space opera aesthetics.
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