Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 3D Reviews
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.
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.
.. 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.
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.
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
If you've seen the others, you'll want to see this one. Let's face it -- there's no turning back.
| Original Score: B
Just when you thought it was safe to ridicule everything Star Wars, Lucas returns from his flirtation with the Dark Side by crafting a terrific caper to his monumental series.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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Top CriticA film that never wields the dramatic impact its plot should demand, and never realises the emotional potential at its dark heart.
Revenge of the Sith might be tolerable if it weren't designed to be taken seriously.
For fans it will be nirvana, and for everyone else a welcome relief.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Revenge of the Sith is a brilliant consummation to a promise made a long time ago, far, far away, in a galaxy called 1977.
Watching Revenge of the Sith, it's hard not to wonder if Lucas even knows how good a movie he almost made.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
George Lucas had lost his way for many years, gone to filmmaking's dark side. But now he's mustered up completely unexpected reserve for a last-minute redemption.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Revenge of the Sith overcomes its dime-store dialogue and less than convincing performances through the sheer force of its director's vision.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It's better than Episode I and not quite as good as Episode II. What it isn't is a lot of fun.
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| Original Score: 3/5
More than a first-rate wrap-up job, it stands on its own as a dazzling piece of showmanship.
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| Original Score: A-
Revenge of the Sith is more of the same: wildly flamboyant effects serving weak characters, bad acting and obtuse plotting.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Man: 'You're so beautiful.' Woman: 'It's only because I'm so in love.' Man: 'No, it's because I'm so in love with you.' Me: 'Man oh man.'
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| Original Score: 2/4
George Lucas makes it easy to experience Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith as a rush of deliverance -- even if the movie itself doesn't fully deliver.
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| Original Score: B-
What a shock when George Lucas finds his footing and the saga once again takes hold.
It provides fun and closure, wrapping up the saga's many narrative strings in an entertaining finale.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Same logo. Same starry-night spacescape. Same music. Same crawl. Same everything. Only different. And so much better.
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| Original Score: A-
For many, the Sith finale will redeem all three prequels. Others will wonder why Lucas wasted so many dollars, years and pixels on a story that could have been told in one film, or better yet, not at all.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Lucas still can't write. His dialogue crashes and burns like an X-wing zapped out of the sky by a star destroyer.
| Original Score: 2/4
To say that Revenge of the Sith is a vast improvement is not extravagant praise -- but neither is it any kind of putdown.
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| Original Score: 3/4
All those who wondered whether writer-director George Lucas was going to end his sci-fi career in a downward tailspin can rest easy.
| Original Score: B
Revenge of the Sith is 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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
It's the darkest of the six-film opus, but it just may be the best of the lot.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
It took 22 years, but the Jedi has finally returned.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
I think it's the best one since The Empire Strikes Back.
...the dialogue is astonishingly feeble, the acting unforgivably wooden.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
...the scariest, most exciting, most visually prodigious of the sextet, with action sequences that explode off the screen, characters who finally awaken your sentiments...
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| Original Score: 4/4
George Lucas has achieved what few artists do; he has created and populated a world of his own.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
... the visually stunning Sith is also the fastest-paced and most accessible.
| Original Score: 3/4
All those Star Wars geeks, who've been waiting for weeks outside movie theaters with their Yoda sleeping bags and their homemade lightsabers, finally have a film that's worthy of their perseverance.
Even with its pulpy excesses showing, Revenge of the Sith has a grandiose melancholy that will especially haunt those who have grown up revering the Skywalker chronicles. The rest of the audience may well be on its own.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Lucas' pioneering work in computer-generated special effects has often gotten the better of him, but this time the action and the visual effects are splendid.
| Original Score: 3/4
So much here is guaranteed to cause either offense or pain...
This is by far the best film in the more recent trilogy, and also the best of the four episodes Mr. Lucas has directed. That's right: it's better than Star Wars.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Anakin's defection from Jediism to Sithdom should provide the film's backbone, but neither the script nor Christensen delivers the needed nuance.
Drink the Kool-Aid. Wear blinders. Cover your ears. Because that's the only way you can totally enjoy Revenge of the Sith.
| Original Score: 2/4
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.
A rousing and tragic sendoff to a beloved franchise, and the best installment in the Star Wars series since 1980's The Empire Strikes Back.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The final episode of George Lucas' cinematic epic Star Wars ends the six-movie series on such a high note that one feels like yelling out, 'Rewind!'
Whatever one thought of the previous two installments, this dynamic picture irons out most of the problems, and emerges as the best in the overall series since The Empire Strikes Back.
