Director: George Lucas
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Ian McDiarmid, Natalie Portman, Frank Oz
Series: Star Wars
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Length: 140 Minutes
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This article features minor spoilers for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
After Attack of the Clones, Star Wars kind of became a joke. It was one of the biggest letdowns in the franchise's history, and it has, to this very day, sullied the reputation of the entire prequel trilogy. Still, when the "final" episode had a release date, Star Wars fans held their collective breath and hoped for the best.
Perhaps for the first time in the Prequel Trilogy, fans' expectations were perfectly met. We knew this movie wouldn't be the greatest, but we wanted it to be the best of the new films, and wham, right after the opening crawl, we get the most epic space battle in any Star Wars film ever (at least as far as the scale of the battle, not the stakes). Star Wars felt like Star Wars should, and the Prophecy of The Force was fulfilled.
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