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\"\"<\/a>[This review was originally published at Christianity Today<\/em><\/a>.]
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To steal a phrase from a certain dark lord, \u201cThis will be a day long remembered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Star Wars, Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith<\/em>, the fastest Star Wars film ever built, packs in more action than its two predecessors \u2014\u00a0The Phantom Menace<\/em> and Attack of the Clones\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 combined. The opening crawl begins with the word \u201cWar!\u201d and, quicker than you can say \u201cInto the garbage chute, flyboy!\u201d, two things become clear:<\/p>\n

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  1. This is not going to be another episode in which action only occasionally interrupts people standing around and discussing politics. The prequels have suffered heavy laser blasts from both critics and fans for lacking the snappy dialogue and the high-stakes action of Episodes Four, Five, and Six. While Sith is still sorely lacking, it\u2019s a big improvement on its two predecessors.<\/li>\n
  2. Lucas was right to warn us that Sith wouldn\u2019t be kid-friendly. Beheadings, severed hands, third-degree burns \u2026 if there\u2019s a bright center to the universe, you\u2019re in the movie that it\u2019s farthest from. Is this gratuitous violence? No. These sometimes gruesome scenes are necessary to portray the temporary triumph of evil while \u201cgood guys\u201d suffer the wages of their sins.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    ACTION!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    It\u2019s not all doom and gloom, though. Strap yourselves in! Sith jumps into lightspeed action from the get-go. In the opening shot (an obvious nod to A New Hope<\/em>), we\u2019re plunged headlong into a chaotic combat zone. The Separatist Alliance wickedly assaults Republic ships in the skies over Coruscant, the Republic\u2019s failing heart. Early manifestations of X-Wings, TIE fighters, and Star Destroyers pyromaniacally careen and collide in the biggest \u201cstar war\u201d adrenalin-rush since the Death Star battle of \u201977, marred only by its robbery of cockpit banter from previous films. (Han Solo should sue.)<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>In the thick of things, young Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) and his Jedi mentor Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) strive to rescue Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who has been kidnapped by a warlord called General Grievous. Part-monster, part machine, Grievous looks like a junkyard Transformer, sounds like a Russian war veteran with smoker\u2019s lung, and wields several lightsabers at once. He also has a tendency to turn tail and run when he meets a real threat\u2026 like Skywalker.<\/p>\n

    Anakin, despite his new unruly hairdo, has become more mature and responsible since Attack of the Clones<\/em>. Obi-Wan, who\u2019s \u201cnot brave enough for politics,\u201d grins like a proud uncle and lets Anakin go his own way to become a Jedi \u201cposter boy\u201d amongst Republic Senators. But away from the spotlight, Anakin seeks covert liaisons with his secret, and pregnant, wife Padm\u00e9 (Natalie Portman). \u201cOur baby is a blessing,\u201d says Padm\u00e9, and Anakin agrees that the news is \u201cthe happiest moment of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Dark dreams disrupt Anakin\u2019s bliss, convincing him that Padm\u00e9 is in danger. Yoda, who does double-duty here as a Jedi therapist and a sweatsuit-wearing action hero, warns Anakin: \u201cThe fear of loss is a path to the Dark Side. Attachment leads to jealousy \u2014 the shadow of greed this is.\u201d He exhorts Anakin to surrender anything he fears to lose, declaring that \u201cDeath is a natural part of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

    But Anakin\u2019s battle against fear, jealousy, and greed is \u2014 as we all know \u2014 a losing one. His loyalties are divided. The Jedi distrust him, lecture him, and show little concern for his dark premonitions, while Palpatine showers Anakin with flattery. The stage is set for the last temptation of Skywalker. Determined to protect Padm\u00e9, he makes a Faustian bargain.<\/p>\n

    Meanwhile, Darth Sidious is baiting the democratic Republic to vote for its own destruction. Jedi Master Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) smells trouble brewing, but he\u2019s never heard of \u201cOrder 66,\u201d the satanic-sounding trap that will spring upon the Jedi. All that remains is for the nefarious Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) to enable Anakin\u2019s ascent to power at the right hand of a Sith lord.<\/p>\n

    CULMINATION!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    You can feel the Republic\u2019s infrastructure crumbling. Lucas takes a note from The Godfather<\/em> in a montage of Jedi knights falling victim to traps (a sequence that would have carried much more weight if only viewers had come to know these Jedi, see them in their full glory, and comprehend the pain of their downfall). Despite another exhibition of Yoda\u2019s \u201cForcibility\u201d against his foes, there will be no one to stop them this time. As in The Return of the King<\/em>, the drama descends into a volcanic abyss for the culminating struggle of Teacher versus Mentor. Call it the saga\u2019s \u201cDarth nadir.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Lucas\u2019s greatest success in Revenge of the Sith<\/em> is this: We can\u2019t help but sympathize with Anakin as he surrenders to the Dark Side. Lo and behold, Darth Vader did not strive to be a heartless villain. He became one by trying to protect the one he loved, going blind to the greater good in the process. The stakes are finally high enough to earn gasps, and the ensuing tragedy is almost Shakespearean. Three intensely emotional lightsaber showdowns \u2014 two of which invert the famous Luke\/Vader\/Emperor face-off of Return of the Jedi<\/em>, and another that severs bonds of friendship \u2014 stir up some of the operatic drama we remember from duels in Empire<\/em> and Jedi<\/em>. We\u2019re drawn, at last, to the edges of our seats.<\/p>\n

    Simultaneously, Lucas discovers what actors are for\u2026 acting! He throws a switch, and suddenly Christensen, Portman, and McGregor come alive, emoting as if things really matter.<\/p>\n

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    Lucas choreographs them through a virtuosic sequence culminating in the descent of a devil who resembles specters that lurked in The Seventh Seal<\/em>, The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>, and The Passion of the Christ<\/em>. As Sidious endeavors to build a better monster, we\u2019re suddenly in the territory of Frankenstein. Intercut with these culminating visions of darkness and deformity are images of grief, despair, and finally, a glimmer of hope. With all of the dark drama of Titanic sinking, Darth Vader rises. The power of myth surges through the veins of the saga again just as it did in the glory days.<\/p>\n

    We\u2019re sent off in a rush of increasingly familiar characters (Tarkin!), corridors (the blockade runner!), and other surprises. Thus, the circle is now complete, and our questions \u2014 most of them, anyway \u2014 are finally answered.<\/p>\n

    But new questions are sure to linger in moviegoers\u2019 minds\u2026.<\/p>\n

    QUESTIONS!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Did Lucas intend Sith to be a commentary on contemporary politics? He denies it, but you\u2019ll wonder. Padm\u00e9 watches the Republic crumble, and remarks, \u201cSo this is how liberty ends \u2014 to thunderous applause.\u201d Dooku and Grievous resemble a recently overthrown warlord and a smash-and-run terrorist, both hunted by an elected leader armed with emergency executive powers. Something\u2019s familiar when Anakin shouts, \u201cIf you\u2019re not for me, then you\u2019re my enemy!\u201d<\/p>\n

    Beyond the politics, there\u2019s a powerfully provocative spiritual subtext. Few tales of pride have led to harder falls. But Anakin isn\u2019t just arrogant; he\u2019s suffering from alienation caused by the insensitivity and neglect of his Jedi \u201cfathers.\u201d Like Gladiator<\/em>\u2019s villain, he strikes because he\u2019s been treated with contempt and denied the love he desires. And like The Godfather<\/em>\u2019s Michael Corleone, he\u2019s sold his soul to gain power and ensure his family\u2019s safety. Lucas vividly illustrates that a violent man convinced of his own righteousness is dangerous indeed. But does he realize that his precious Jedi illustrate the cost of callous leadership?<\/p>\n

    Deciding that desirable ends justify sinister means, Anakin writes off the Jedi as \u201cevil.\u201d Obi-Wan answers, \u201cOnly a Sith deals in absolutes!\u201d Does Obi-Wan mean that there are no absolutes? If so, then why does he absolutely disagree with Anakin\u2019s perspective? Or perhaps he means that it\u2019s dangerous to make oversimplifications. If so, that\u2019s a lesson Kenobi forgets in later episodes. Luke must defy Obi-Wan in Return of the Jedi<\/em> to prove that Vader is not \u201cabsolutely\u201d evil.<\/p>\n

    And what about the Force? It\u2019s increasingly hard to believe that this invisible power actually \u201cbinds the galaxy together\u201d in the end. For years, Christian moviegoers have debated whether \u201cthe Force\u201d might be a good metaphor for God. This film seals the deal \u2014 the Force is not good enough to save the universe. It remains, in the end, something that both the Jedi and the Sith treat as a commodity, something we should get and learn to manipulate for our own purposes, good or evil.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>Episode Two\u2019s references to \u201cthe will of the Force\u201d suggest that this power is sentient, but nobody ever stops to wonder what that \u201cwill\u201d might be. In The Lord of the Rings <\/em>and Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>, there was \u201canother will at work,\u201d an Authority to serve, a Higher Being intervening to redeem a mess made by well-intentioned but insufficient heroes. In Star Wars<\/em>, no one asks any Higher Power for help. Thus, the galaxy seems pretty much doomed, because \u2014 Jedi and Sith alike \u2014 they\u2019re all corrupt. There\u2019s apparently no Higher Power they believe can save them \u2014 not even in the afterlife. They\u2019re on their own.<\/p>\n

    Moreover, it\u2019s bewildering to hear Yoda nonchalantly claim that a Jedi should reject \u201cattachments.\u201d Doesn\u2019t Luke save the galaxy in Episodes Five and Six by rejecting that philosophy and serving his \u201cattachment\u201d to Han, Leia, and ultimately his father? Even worse, Yoda declares that \u201cdeath is natural\u201d and that we should not let it trouble us. Why, then, is he distraught over the corpses of murdered colleagues? Death is unnatural . . . it was not a part of God\u2019s plan for creation. It\u2019s a natural part of a fallen world, yes, but we recoil from it and grieve over it because it is a flaw, not an ideal. It\u2019s evidence that the world needs of a bold, benevolent redeemer, not an insensitive, dispassionate savior.<\/p>\n

    AGGRAVATION!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    You\u2019re unlikely to hear much discussion of these things. Star Wars fans are sticklers for detail, and it\u2019s not wise to upset a fanboy. Sith gives them plenty to complain about.<\/p>\n

    Disgruntled fans will target the bland screenwriting. For every brilliant action scene, there\u2019s a spectacularly lame punchline that any moviegoer on the planet could improve upon. Jedi may be masters of stuffy diplomacy, but Han Solo and Princess Leia could teach them about smart, sarcastic comebacks. Anakin and Padme\u2019s \u201cromantic\u201d exchanges are the stuff of cheap teen romance novels. It\u2019s painful to hear Yoda, so eloquently mysterious in The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>, respond to the Emperor\u2019s threats by quipping, \u201cNot if anything to say about it I have!\u201d No wonder the Republic collapsed.<\/p>\n

    Continuity problems will drive perfectionists to distraction: \u201cIn Episode Six, Princess Leia said she could remember her mother. How could that be?\u201d \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t Obi-Wan recognize Threepio and R2D2 in A New Hope<\/em>?\u201d \u201cVader could sense that Luke was his son, but not that Leia was his daughter?\u201d Those who care about such things seem to have been made to suffer.<\/p>\n

    A special edition with severe revisions may be necessary to improve some serious errors in judgment. Obi-Wan\u2019s poorly animated reptilian steed should never have escaped the animator\u2019s computer. Whoever taught Wookies to impersonate Tarzan\u2026 terminate him, immediately. Darth Vader\u2019s arrival onscreen is a mix of brilliance and lunacy \u2014 the helmet is reverently introduced, but Vader\u2019s first steps are awkward and embarrassing.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>Perhaps the most distressing development is the way in which constant revelations of implausible interconnections keep shrinking this galaxy into something resembling Mr. Lucas\u2019s Neighborhood. Darth is Luke\u2019s father, Leia is Luke\u2019s sister, Boba Fett\u2019s papa was the original stormtrooper, and that jittery protocol droid was Vader\u2019s childhood project. Now we learn that another popular hero, whose appearance here is entirely gratuitous, has been Yoda\u2019s buddy all along. What will the upcoming Star Wars television series reveal? That Han Solo was Aunt Beru\u2019s illegitimate son? That a young Jabba crawled out of Jar-Jar\u2019s nose?<\/p>\n

    Dwelling on these details, you can dismantle the whole saga, just as Luke Skywalker wiped out the Death Star by bulls-eyeing a vulnerable spot. But we shouldn\u2019t condemn the whole enterprise for a few loose screws. While it falls short of Four and Five, Episode Three is easily as compelling as the climactic Return of the Jedi<\/em>, and it\u2019s definitely the most visually enthralling installment. It\u2019s not as good as I hoped it would be, but it\u2019s far better than I expected.<\/p>\n

    APPRECIATION!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Some gratitude is in order. Through Star Wars<\/em>, Lucas revolutionized many aspects of filmmaking. He wove mythologies, religions, cliffhangers, and Akira Kurosawa films together into a fascinating hybrid. He emphasized that spiritual realities are as important as material realities. A parade of popular directors \u2014 James Cameron, Michael Bay, the Wachowskis, Peter Jackson \u2014 have built careers out of resources he invented. And Star Wars<\/em> lingo has influenced language from the playground to the White House. For fans and everyone else, these movies have altered the world, usually for the better.<\/p>\n

    So, is this truly the end of Star Wars<\/em>? \u201cDifficult to see. Always in motion the future is.\u201d Until we know, let\u2019s be thankful for an unforgettable journey and a story that, like any great myth, gives us glimpses \u201cthrough a glass darkly\u201d of things essential and true. Virtue, courage, patience, peace, self-control, love \u2026 the Good Side are they. To borrow a line from Obi-Wan, \u201cWe\u2019ve taken our first steps into a larger world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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