Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

All Critics (253) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (212) | Rotten (52) | DVD (34)

A grave and vigorous popular entertainment, a picture that regains and sustains the filmic Force [Lucas] dreamed up a long time ago, in a movie industry that seems far, far away.

August 13, 2008 Full Review | Comments (2)

Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Lucas is a brilliant technician but a poor philosopher, and his lurchingly thought-out rendering of futuristic politics prevents the entire series from achieving the greatness to which it aspires.

May 12, 2006 Full Review | Comments (13)

Ken Tucker

New York Magazine

Top Critic

.. even though Revenge is a better experience than Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones, it doesn't add anything that satisfying or compelling to the big picture.

December 31, 2005 Full Review | Comments (16)

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

Not far into the first third of the movie, I didn't think I was going to make it all the way through the percussive nonstop action.

May 26, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

Lucas has woven into the action and effects a relatively thoughtful story about a young man meant for greatness but corrupted by his own fear and confusion, a story more Shakespearean than Arthurian.

May 22, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

If you've seen the others, you'll want to see this one. Let's face it -- there's no turning back.

May 20, 2005 Comment

Robert Denerstein

Denver Rocky Mountain News

Top Critic

The bar has been set so low in mainstream Hollywood movies that it's not even worth seriously analyzing this stuff

September 3, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Jay Antani

Cinema Writer

As the finale approached, I just didn't want to leave my seat, because that meant it's all over...supposedly.

April 29, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Lucas slips up on a few fronts en route, but doesn't disappoint when it counts.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Urban Cinefile Critics

Urban Cinefile

Of course, being best Star Wars film since Empire Strikes Back isn't saying much, when you consider what came between...

August 20, 2008 Full Review | Comments (2)

Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

Anakin Skywalker begins his journey to the Dark Side.

July 16, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

This one had the most potential, and in that way it is the most disappointing.

July 14, 2007 Full Review | Comments (3)

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

A fitting capstone on a collection of screen classics for the ages!

June 20, 2007 Full Review | Comments (2)

Kam Williams

Princeton Town Topics

The only one of the trilogy that actually works as both a good Summer movie and a solid sci-fi movie in its own right.

October 30, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Garth Franklin

Dark Horizons

full review in Greek

October 3, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

The best-looking Star Wars episode of all, if not the most exciting, most imaginative or most affecting.

September 28, 2006 Full Review | Comments (7)

Kim Newman

Sight and Sound

Rich in cityscapes and costumes.

August 22, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

The film's spectacle, on the other hand, is utterly enthralling from its first image to its last.

July 20, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Douglas Pratt

Movie City News

For me, Sith succeeds in providing a satisfying ending to the films while also closing a chapter of my own life.

December 6, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Chris Gore

Film Threat

It did what I thought was impossible after the previous two films: it made me a Star Wars fan again.

December 6, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)

Pete Vonder Haar

Film Threat

The truth is, if Revenge of the Sith has an appropriate Biblical counterpart, it is in Revelations. This is apocalyptic filmmaking at its most artistically shattering.

November 30, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Bill Gibron

DVD Verdict

• 1. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader: This is the end for you, my master.
  2. Obi-Wan Kenobi: [fights with Anakin and then jumps to a hill]
  3. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader: You underestimate my power!
  4. Obi-Wan Kenobi: Don't try it!
  5. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader: [jumps] Ahhhrrrrggggg!
  6. Obi-Wan Kenobi: [slashes Vader's legs and right arm]
  7. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader: Arrrgggggggg.
  8. Obi-Wan Kenobi: You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to The Force! Not leave it in Darkness![Picks up lightsabers]
  9. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader: Arggg... I hate you! [starts to slip in the lava]
  10. Obi-Wan Kenobi: You were my brother Anakin!. I loved you!
  11. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader: [starts to burn up]
  12. Obi-Wan Kenobi: [looks at Anakin sadly and leaves]
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• 1. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious: POWER! UNLIMITED POWER!
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• 1. Mace Windu: [defending himself from the lighting power from Palpatine] Don't listen to him Anakin, AH!
  2. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious: Don't let him kill me. I can't hold it any longer. I'm too weak. [stops lighting to Mace Windu] Anakin. HELP ME! I can't hold it any longer.
  3. Mace Windu: I'm going to end this, once and for all.
  4. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader: You can't he must get trial.
  5. Mace Windu: He has control of the city and the court, he is too dangerous to be kept alive.
  6. Obi-Wan Kenobi: I'm too weak. Don't kill me please.
  7. Obi-Wan Kenobi: It's not the Jedi way, he must live. I need him. [Mace Windu tries to kill Palpatine] NO! [Anakin cuts off Mace Windu's right hand]
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• 1. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious: Anakin? I told you were coming to this, I was right. THE JEDI ARE TAKING OVER!
  2. Mace Windu: The opression of the Sith will never return. You have lost.
  3. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious: No, NO NO, YOU WILL DIE! [he shoots the lighting force power to Mace Windu] He's a traitor.
  4. Mace Windu: He is the traitor. AH!
  5. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious: I've got the power to save your wife, you must choose.
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• 1. General Grievous (Voice): Army or not. You must realize, you are doomed.
  2. Obi-Wan Kenobi: Oh, I don't think so. [he pushes Grievous away with his force powers]
  – Submitted by Javis C (2 months ago)