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After defeating Grievous and Anakin, it seems like the most ridiculous decision in the world for Obi and Yoda, but the logic Force wasn't really strong in Lucas's rationalisations otherwise Padme wouldn't have just - literally - given up the will to live. because that's where we find him in the next movies. Yoda gets some good screen time too, doubling down on his Dooku clash with an epic battle with Palpatine himself, undercut only by a randomly abortive ending, where his character crawls away to Dagobah for little reason other than. Jackson's Mace Windu confrontation with Palpatine is pretty superb too, even if it's only a narrative heartbeat away from the subsequent children-slaying sequence that almost single-handedly ruins the whole descent. The remaining Jedi are mostly (literal) cannon fodder, which is a little shame (the Clone Wars cartoons and expanded universe have consistently attempted to rectify this), but their fates still hit home, and Samuel L. Doing the heavy lifting in terms of acting (particularly opposite Christensen), and pulling off some of the best action too (the final lightsaber face off rivals Duel of the Fates in Phantom Menace for the top spot of duels in the entire series), you could almost strip every Obi-Wan scene out of the prequels and construct one hell of a good film just from them.
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Decisions like this remain head-scratchingly bad, but Lucas somehow still just about gets the job done, in part thanks to the supporting cast and some undeniably strong set pieces - as well as the sheer death toll, not least courtesy of the snapshot of Order 66 in its full, devastating, effect.Įwan McGregor is still the standout of the prequels.Įwan McGregor is still the standout of the prequels, cementing his position here with an excellent final turn as Obi-Wan, finally showing us the Jedi Master and Clone Wars General at the height of his capabilities, as he not only takes on the vicious General Grievous (a franchise-great villain utterly wasted here - another unfortunate casualty of the Clone Wars omission - and only really fleshed out in the 2003 Tartakovsky series as well as the more recent Disney show) but then has to face off against his Padawan and brother-in-arms Anakin.
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There's still some innate stupidity, mostly thanks to Christensen, but even he's on better form, instead largely hampered by a script (and editing - as Lucas changed his mind about motivations in the editing suite) which saw his fallen Jedi go from doubt, disbelief, and a desperate desire to save his wife that would make him protect the powerful man who says he can save her at all cost, to callously executing Jedi children for no apparent reason, in the space of a few incomprehensible minutes. Upping the pace and changing the tone considerably, Revenge started down its dark path with a deadly confrontation between Anakin and Christopher Lee's Count Dooku, and maintained some strong seed-planting thanks almost entirely to Ian McDiarmid's excellent work as the manipulative Palpatine, sliming his way into the Senate and, more importantly, into Anakin's confidence, and then, finally, pushing the gullible, angsty moron over the edge when necessary. Finally the prequels hit the mark with this darker final chapter that is packed with fateful, memorable confrontations.įor all the wasted time in The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones - as well as the unforgivable omission of the actual Clone Wars themselves - Star Wars broke into PG-13 territory for the first time with this much more violent entry, which had to work some seriously contrived Jedi mind-tricks to tie itself into the start of A New Hope (unlike, say, Rogue One, which effortlessly worked as a near-perfect prequel), but nonetheless finally delivered the goods as it viciously decimated the Jedi ranks and cast the universe into darkness.