The revenge at stars end

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Viewed the Revenge of the Sith this weekend. It was good but not incredible. Plenty of eye candle but still the lack of character cohesion. True, these movies are just to set up for Obi-Wan and Darth Vader but it still lacked a decent verbiage. The following are the my kudos for the this chapter:
  • Hayden does improve. More believable. Yet I sense a missing link in the characterization as he moves from Anakin to Darth Vader.
  • Ewan McGregor is still fantastic. His Obi-Wan is superb, again.
  • Light saber duels abounding. This is the what we wanted to see. Obi-Wan and Anakin's duel is incredible
  • Keeping the serial motiff. Although I could easily jeer (in chorus with a thousand others) the awkward romantic elements, Lucas knows how to lay the pipe and turn up the heat and leave us lurching for more. The Obi-Wan beast of burden chase was a bit over the top.

There are some sour points too that I will enumerate here:

  • Samuel L. Jackson's Mace Windu. Not as bad-ass jedi as in Clones. A blah performance notwithstanding the confrontation with Palapatine.
  • Clutter. So much eye candy it hurts at times. Give us stuff we have seen before. The Star Wars universe has been bloated.
  • Resolution that was fairly predictable. For almost 20 years my friends and I knew vaguely about how Anakin became Vader. This movie gave us brilliant visuals but nothing surprising. That's what it lacked- surprises. We are used to Palapatine's plans to play both sides. It happens again and again.

And there are a few questions:

  • What kind of relationship does Yoda have with the Wookies?
  • How come the Jedi council could not tell Padme and Anakin were married? Come on Jedis! Even I can tell when somebody is in love.
  • How did Obi-Wan get on the Jedi council? Probably answered in the book.
  • Was Anakin the chosen one? Not clear.

And my favorite moment- Obi-Wan last lines to Anakin : "You were the chosen one!"

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