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Star Wars - Episode III, Revenge of the Sith (Widescreen Edition)

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Episode III, Revenge of the Sith Widescreen Edition DVD


Actors: Ewan McGegor , Natalie Portman , Hayden Christensen , Ian McDiarmid , Samuel L. Jackson ,
Director: George Lucas ,
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Format: AC-3 , Closed-captioned , Color , Dolby , Dubbed , DVD-Video , Subtitled , Widescreen , NTSC ,
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating:  PG-13  Parental Guidance Suggested
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-01
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-05-19
Region code: 1
Number of Discs: 2


  • The dark side
    As a fan of Star Wars, I absolutely loved the movie. I couldn't wait for the DVD release and on Nov. 1, fans got their wish, although with different choices.

    What was interesting, unlike many blockbuster films that are released on DVD, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith received special treatment.

    The three sets featured Obi Wan Kenobi, Mace Windhu and Annakin Skywalker. The hard-to-find second set features Darth Sidious, Darth Vader and Count Dooku. The third set featured three clone troopers.

    As for the DVD, it does not disappoint. The audio and video is stunning. The DVD comes with two discs. Disc one features the main movie (and the dancing Yoda easter egg).

    The second disc is jam packed with Star Wars Episode III goodness and features six never-before-seen deleted scenes with introductions by George Lucas and producer Rick McCallum.

    Also included on the second disc isa full-length documentary titled Within a Minute, a featurette on Annakin's transformation to Darth Vader in The Chosen One. A featurette on the training for the jedi battles in It's All For Real. Fifteen web documentaries of the making of SW:ROTS. The music video for John Williams A Hero Falls. Theatrical teasers and 15 TV spots. Theatrical posters and print campaigns from around the world. Never-before-seen production photo gallery. A playable demo with two entire levels for Star Wars Battlefront II for the XBOX and Star Wars Empire At War.

    I can't say how much I love this DVD. If you are a Star Wars fan, the third episode for the Star Wars series is a definite must-buy. Even for the casual movie fan who is not a big fan, it's just a very good movie.

    The DVD looks and sounds beautiful and more than enough special features to keep you busy. Definitely worth checking out


  • It's all a bit average really
    Well, on the plus side, its not boring and its certainly not as bad as ATTACK OF THE CLONES. There aren't as many mawkish love scenes or whining from 'Anni,' although there's still too much of that for the films own good. Christensen's performance has gone from terrible to annoying (he's bad, just in a different way), but then no-one is much good in the film. They're just there to link the computer effects sequences that Lucas is really interested in. The film has a frantic pace which proves to frantic for subtlety, character or plot. Annakin's move to the Dark Side is never really that credible, just a plot point. He does it because if he didn't, he couldn't become Darth Vader. You won't be bored, but you also won't be convinced by the bits between the wildly overlong action scenes. Like RETURN OF THE JEDI, Lucas swamps the film with overkill. More lightsabre fights, bigger space battles, even more lightsabre fights, big stormtrooper battles, yet more lighsabre fights, and a lot less return on the investment. You get the picture. There's so much of it that by the time you get to the lightsabre fight that counts, your reaction is "Not ANOTHER one" All in all watchable but also pretty forgettable. It's not a film you really need to see, but you probably won't mind it if you do. But that does seem to be an underwhelming verdict for something this anticipated.

  • My son loves the series
    I ordered episodes 1 thru 3 for my son. They all arrived before the promised arrival date and with no damages.

  • "You were sent to destroy the Sith, not join them"
    So the time has come that I review "Revenge of the Sith." As those who have read my reviews for Episodes I and II will know, I do not have much sympathy for the people who continue to claim that these three films have wrecked their lives forever. What life is this that you ever had, Universal 1-Star reviewer, if a few movies you didn't like devestated you THAT much "George Lucas raped my childhood". Get real... or at least get therapy.

    Alright, so George Lucas is a much more creative--and, in all likelyhood, much more intelligent--person than these one-star reviwers who somehow seem to think that they could do what he's done better than he's done, but even HE was facing a tall order in delivering "Star Wars-- Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" to viewers successfuly. Not only was he looking at a fanbase in which many had completely lost faith in him after the previous two films, but he was also releasing a climactic story that brought with it close to thirty years of hype and expectation. (Of course his job was theoretically made somewhat easier in that all the fans who were THAT disatsified with the first two prequels should have learned to lower their expecations by the time the third one came along. In practice, however, some things simply never change.) Nonetheless, against the odds of ever satisfying these people, some of whom literally wanted him in court for the supposed rape of their childhood memories, George Lucas resolved to finish his great life's work... and "Revenge of the Sith" is the final result of that resolve.

    As the film opens, it is made clear that the Clone War, which started in the previous segment of the series, are still very much in full swing after of the passage of three whole years. The Seperatists, led by Jedi-turned-Sith Count Dooku (Christopher Lee), aided by General Grievous of the battle droid army (an ILM creation voiced by sound editor Matt Wood), have landed the most devestating blow as yet to the Republic by kidnapping Supreme Chanellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid.) The first 20-25 minute portion of the film deals with the rescue mission headed by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), who is now a full Jedi Knight rather than an apprentice. They are now fast friends with a good history of great comradship throughout the war.

    While Palpatine is eventually rescued by the Jedi--and Count Dooku ends up removed from the picture swiftly--General Grievous has escaped once again, and so, says Palpatine, the war must continue until he is captured. Meanwhile, Anakin's secret wife, Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) has gotten pregnant; but good news turns sour when Anakin has what he believes is a prophetic dream of Padme dying in childbirth. He has good reason to suspect that this dream represents an event that will come to pass, as he had a similar experience with his mother several years previously. Simaltaneously, Obi-Wan is sent, based on received intelligence, to get rid of Grievous, who is hiding on a distant planet, once and for all, and Yoda goes to Kashykk, the Wookie planet, to lead another battle, so Anakin gets left alone with Chancellor Palpatine to battle his conflicting emotions and desires. Without divulging any excess information, it is from this point on that the real story, twisted and twisiting, begins.

    I cannot emphasize enough that this film, in its every element, dwarfs its predecessors. The space battle that opens the film, through which Anakin and Obi-Wan force their way to rescue the Chancellor, is the gigantic and exciting space battle in the entire series, rivaled in thrills only by the final battle from "Return of the Jedi." And fittingly so: this is the final space battle we are very likely to see in this series. Some have complained about the CGI use, but A)It looks GREAT, completely realistic and B) the battle itself is so exciting and invigorating that one hardly thinks to imagine how it was created while it's happening. (Plainly, I've never understood how CG can bother anyone as much as it has some. It could have something to do with growing up in the '90s and early 2000s, but I don't get what annoys people so much about CGI versus puppets. The Coruscant interiors are often breath-taking, and I don't know anyone can deny that the 2005 digital Yoda isn't WAY more realstic looking than his puppet form. OK, he needed a little more work in 2002, but I'm hardly complaining since he looks so *real* in 2005 that I could reach through the screen and touch him.)

    As great as the opening space fight is, the lightsaber battles are even better. In spite of the fact that most of his fight work was done by a double, Christopher Lee commands incredible presence in his one scene as Dooku. It's also a great three way fight, with a lot of clashing swords, tension, and at least one brilliant piece of dialogue delivery from Lee. The ending also puts to shame much of what came before (hint: the long trail of severed body parts throughout this series is taken to a whole new level with a beheading. Like producer Rick McCallum, I greatly appreciate that Lucas had the courage to put this moment in the film.) There are four other saber fights in the film. Of them, Grievous' fight with Obi-Wan is the most fun purely in the sense of great action. Grevious isn't Darth Maul, but it is extremley cool that he fights with four lightsabers at once, and, for that matter, that he is in fact a gravely injured human being cobbled together in a manner similar to Darth Vader. Add to this the resourcefulness of Obi-Wan--who, at one point, can be seen landing Grevious a good blow or two with an Electro-Staff, possibly the *coolest* weapon introduced to Star Wars since the saber itself--and you have a more-than-worthy action sequence before you.

    Oustide of this, it really is hard to decide on a favorite lightsaber duel in this film. Mace Vs. Darth Sideous allows Sam Jackson one more opportunity to be the baddest purple lazer-wielding Jedi in the galaxy, and shows of Ian McDiarmid's acting skills superbly, winding up one of the most exciting sequences in the whole series. But I really have to give the props to intercut face-offs of Darth Sideous and Yoda, and Obi-Wan and Darth Vader. I seem to remember reading some criticism around the time of the film's release about the decision to have Sideous and Yoda's duel placed directly alongside Anakin and Obi-Wan's, but from the moment it began, I thought it was a brilliant sequence: at the same moment in time as two friends turned bitter enemies are fighting each other, the ultimate forces of Good and Evil in the Galaxy are facing off. It's a superb idea... and it looks great, too Not only do we have the two greatest and most epic sword fights in the series, but there is a visually amazing segment in which Sideous begins hurling objects in the Senate room at Yoda; this is worth seeing not only for the incredible tenson and the struggle for domination between these two characters, but also because Ian McDiarmid hams it up deliciously opposite his "little green friend" in shot after shot. He's like a kid playing with a new toy--and that approach could not be more appropriate than it is. Tiny Yoda is, at times, like a toy in Sideous' palm.

    So the action is great, but what about the other elements As I keep saying, this movie completely dwarfs its predecessors in all areas. Ian McDiarmid, in the role of Darth Sideous, is likely to be the first actor to jump out at you as being absolutely brilliant. McDiarmid is a Royal Shakespeare Theatre actor, and he performs with all of the excellence associated with such qualifications. While he eminates the role of a ruthless villain in some scenes, perhaps his greatest triumph is the scene at the opera (not kidding-- a scene in a Star Wars movie that takes place at an opera) where he begins to cajole Anakin into joining him with the implicit promise that he can teach Anakin how to save Padme from certain death. Apparently, McDiarmid's unusual, crackling tone has more to do with a soar throat than anything else, but either way it enhances an already excellent scene. Elsewhere, he slips chillingly back into his Emperor voice (to wit: "I can FEEL it.")

    I am confident that almost every reviewer who posted here with praises extoled Ewan McGregor's excellent take on a younger Obi-Wan. His range--from silly, completely over-the-top humor, right to utter pain and disapointment--has to be seen to be believed. It is that brilliant and moving a performance. He is certainly one of the greatest young acting talents we have today-- even if just for his uncanny ability to chanel Sir Alec Guiness' role minus 20-30 years near PERFECTLY. Elsewhere, Frank Oz manages to leave the viewer wondering that he has never broken into an acting beyond all those muppets; his voice performance is stirring and, again, dwarfs what he has done in past installments of this series. Samuel L. Jackson shifts admirably between his stoic and battle-ready sides. While he actually gets to *act* MUCH more in this installment, he is not as memorable as in Ep. II. He shows off his range at times, but he doesn't have the opportunities, as in previous pictures, to reveal his personality, and that's part of being in a *series* of movies: you're probably going to be more memorable when you first revealing your personality than later on when everything has been established.

    Natalie Portman has surprisngly little to do, all things considered, but makes the viewer feel her character's emotions with all the necessary weight. She really nails her last scene with Anakin, especially considering the wordy dialogue, and the scene in which she and Anakin are staring out of their windows, looking in each other's direction, says it all with no words and a lot of artistic excellence from all involved.

    Hayden Christensen. Hayden, Hayden, Hayden. It's hard for me to believe that so many can absolutely cruficy him for his work in this series. To some, he will be forever "wooden"-- if these people were to ever admit otherwise, they would lose their pride, it seems. The truth is, however, that, perfect or not, he nails the role of someone who, blinded by and consumed with power and greed, turns against his friends, against the principles he has lived for his entire life, and is brimming with an agony of conflict that eventually must overflow. From tender scenes of love to thunderous outbursts of anger and darkness, he rarely misses a beat. It's hard to believe that anyone could wood behind any of his work in this film. He improved greatly from Attack of the Clones (where, again, he seldom missed a note where it counted), and is now able to play a completely three-dimensional, inherently tragic figure. Kudos to him He has an uncanny ability to role off virtually the most flourid lines Lucas can conncot for his character.

    Elsewhere, some say the film was predictible... DUH We've already seen parts 4-6, so we know what has to happen, at least at the most basic level. It's predictible for us, but it wouldn't be for someone coming to the series with no prior exposure generations from now, beginning logically at the point of Episode *1*. The bottom line is that it simply isn't fair to hold predictibility against this or any of the Star Wars prequels. For today's audiences, it was an inherent problem. However, George Lucas is a great storyteller, so he was able to overcome this. The storyline of this movie is strong-- it keeps suspense going, and is well-paced and believable within the context of the Star Wars world. The characters are well-drawn, with strong motiviations for their actions; what, other than the unmatched power of love, is likely to turn one to the ever-present Dark Side of the Force Ultimately, this whole series is a masterwork of storytelling, whatever else it may or may not be.

    "Revenge of the Sith" certainly has imperfections. The acting isn't perfect, the dialogue still triggers a shake of the head from time to time, but it is a wonderful and tragic film taken in total.

    W.O.

  • My Favorite but not the best Star Wars
    I loved this movie so much I saw it in the theater 5 times. It is action packed and has great visual effects but the script and acting but Vader wans't the best. Oh well, the ending was cool...

  • loved this movie
    loved this movie from start to finish.nothing about this movie i did not like and no part of the movie i did not like great movie and so was the first movie but i do not know what happened to the second ond that one was completely off the chart dead.

  • The fans have it wrong
    The other reviews are longer to read than the movie itself The fact is, all six films are wonderful If Lucas had filmed in order part one, two, three, four, etc. We as an audience wouldn't have cared by part five and the better fims would have been lost forever, selling nothing But since Lucas filmed 4,5,6, and then returned to 1,2,and 3, focusing more on special effects, he kept his fans far more interested and sold millions, possibly billions
    Lucas is a genius I loved the Phantom Menace It is a cool name and wonderful movie. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith just got better and better
    You love these movies Go on admit it You can keep complaining but you're not fooling anyone


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