In fact, the initial 23 minutes virtually constitute one eye-popping action sequence, as the Jedis fight an assortment of battles to rescue the kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) from the clutches of the skeletal separatist General Grievous. Despite fans’ varying degrees of loss of faith that set in with “Menace” and “Clones,” most will be inspired enough to believe again.Īs if deliberately setting out to reassert his mastery over his iconic creation, Lucas opens with an amazing shot of his two Jedi Knights, Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor) and Anakin ( Hayden Christensen), threading their little spaceships through an extraordinary maze of explosions and airborne craft. Given the general awareness of what’s going to happen, it’s up to Lucas to make it exciting. There’s little doubt “Sith” will significantly improve on the latter figure.Įveryone who has followed the “Star Wars” saga over the years will come to this film knowing that it all has to pay off here: the transformation from Anakin into Darth Vader, the face-off between Anakin/Vader and his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, the morphing of the Republic into the Empire, the exile of Yoda and Padme’s birth of the twins Luke and Leia, siblings who become the central figures in episodes 4-6. Indeed, “Sith” looks likely to follow the commercial pattern of the initial trilogy, wherein the second edition, “Empire,” dipped considerably from the first, only to see the third, “Return of the Jedi,” bounce back closer to the level of “Star Wars.” In the case of the most recent set, “The Phantom Menace” grossed $921 million worldwide (slightly more coming from foreign territories than from the U.S.), while “Attack of the Clones” slipped to a $647 million worldwide cume. 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.” Stratospheric B.O. The Force returns with most of its original power regained in “ Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.” Concluding entry in George Lucas’ second three-pack of space epics teems with action, drama and spectacle, and even supplies the odd surge of emotion, as young Anakin Skywalker goes over to the Dark Side and the stage is set for the generation of stories launched by the original “Star Wars” 28 years ago.
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