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Originally Posted by Ray Jackson
Revenge is highly flawed, but still better than Phantom by a country mile.
...in my humble opinion.
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Revenge feels so rushed and, ultimately, pointless. My thoughts after my last rewatch:
"The opening is pretty good, with the banter between Anakin and Obi-Wan and long upbeat battle to rescue Palpatine. The second half feels rushed, like there’s much the film still needs to establish for the original trilogy. Anakin becoming full Darth Vader after helping kill Windu and then immediately killing children, Palpatine claiming the Jedi aim to take over the senate (How would they even accomplish this? The clones aren’t their army and the Republic is made of many governments.) and immediately creating a Galactic Empire with full support by the senate, even though the Jedi have been known as peacekeepers for generations, and Yoda choosing to go into exile immediately after his failure to defeat Sidious. The way it elaborates on the mythology and these characters is interesting, but it’s not very graceful.
"The final lightsaber fight is honestly kind of like a silly video game lava platforming sequence. It’s drawn out.
"Palpatine should never have used a lightsaber. He and Yoda should have faced off barehanded, like powerful wizards.
"It has some dumb moments, like Ani and Padme trying to be romantic on the balcony, Padme being perfectly healthy according to the medical droid but losing the will to live and Palpatine becoming deformed from an attack he would viciously use on Luke years later. Why does Anakin’s whole body catch on fire? Is that how lava works? It never seemed right to me. I would have rather seen him burn up in a big fire, or fall into lava or a kind of acid and rise screaming like in the end of Terminator 2.
"The closer I get to the ending of the prequels, the more I wonder what the point of telling Anakin’s story was. The original trilogy was completely self-contained and told us what we needed to know. When I get to the end of the prequels, I feel incomplete. Episode IV is so different from III, stylistically and visually, that watching them sequentially doesn’t seem like a very appealing idea to me. Besides, I just watched the originals a month ago. I’m not in the mood. Episode III is so dark and doesn’t give you much resolution in return. In Episode I, everything was still vague and there wasn’t so much focus on Anakin. The film was free to tell a self-contained story, much like Episode IV. Not having a main character yet was perhaps to the benefit of the film. The characters were still only chess pieces in this bigger story of space politics.
"But my biggest problem with the film is how rushed the second hour is. I actually liked it, for the most part, but I find it hard to call it a good movie.
"Having rewatched the three movies now, I feel even more strongly that Anakin’s backstory was a waste of time. If Lucas wanted to show the fall of democracy to tyranny and the destruction of the Jedi, he should have done it with new main characters, whose outcomes we don’t already know. Anakin and Obi-Wan should have been in the background."
Still, it's a 6 out of 10 for me.
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