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Revenge of the Sith is an entirely fake-looking assault on the senses from the opening battle above Coruscant to the final duel on Mustafar. The first of these is the relentlessness of the CGI. Those are more or less common complaints. The transformation is unsatisfying and at no point do we see Anakin metamorphose from a fundamentally good Jedi and friend of Obi-Wan to becoming the character we see in Star Wars of 1977. This only emerges as a single piece of throwaway dialogue in the film when he suggests to PadmГ©, as he does to Luke, that the Emperor may be overthrown. What this film needed to do, I would argue, is not make Anakin into such an overtly furious character who is drawn to the Dark Side through what largely amounts to anxiety, but rather to realise him as an embittered, power-hungry cynic who sees service to Palpatine as a vehicle for his own ambition. Palpatine goes from being a reasonably believable manipulator in the other two Prequels to being someone completely, obviously evil in this who makes no attempt whatsoever to disguise his malevolence from those around him, making his subjugation of Anakin very difficult to believe and dependent on Anakin being a complete moron. Ian McDiarmid completely hams it up as Palpatine, but again a large amount of this is due to the flawed dialogue. Ewan McGregor is obviously phoning it in as Obi-Wan, and he could scarcely come across as more uninterested in the motions of CGI action and exposition-laden dialogue that he goes through, although that's completely understandable. In any event, the performances aren't memorable from anyone. Given that Lucas has admitted that dialogue was a weakness of his, I don't understand why he didn't seek collaborators on these films. You could potentially argue that there is a political subtext here about politicians and how useful gullible conspiracy theorists are to their cause, but it doesn't work in this film because as I've said it reflects none of Vader's cynicism of the Original Trilogy - which is not to say that Vader isn't also at times a rather sinister idealist, but he's a complex character in those films.ДЄ lot has been made of the weakness of Christensen's performance as Anakin here, although that's obviously tied to the clumsy dialogue.

Nowhere do you see the grim cynicism of Vader emerging he's simply duped into agreeing with Palpatine's feeble and paper-thin suggestions that the Jedi are trying to take over the Republic and are a force for ill rather than good. Tied to this is the characterisation, with Anakin Skywalker in this film coming across as a naГЇve idiot who swallows every single obvious lie that Palpatine feeds to him.

#STAR WARS SITH TEMPLE FULL#

None of the characters talk like real people, and their mouths are full of nothing but unsubtle, in-your-face efforts to express simplistic emotions or pointless exposition about war and politics that means little and goes nowhere.

The most common criticism of the film is the dialogue. Most of what I could say to criticise Revenge of the Sith has more or less been expressed before, but it's worth summing up.

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