Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith

In the old-fashioned tradition of saving the best for last, George Lucas' last STAR WARS film is by far the best film of the second trilogy and, heretical though it sounds, may come closest of all the films to achieving the balance between gee-whiz sci-fi spectacle and mythic resonance to which Lucas aspired. Steeped in a bitter sense of promise betrayed and driven by an urgency THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999) and ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002) sorely lacked, it opens with the democratic galactic alliance in crisis, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) consolidating his political capital and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) increasingly disenchanted with his Jedi...