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Our daily series where Allison Keene watches the Star Wars movies for the first time. Read her intro/explanation here, and here’s her reviews of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and Episode II: Attack of the Clones. And this is how the series ends, not with a bang but a "Noooooooooo!" I can sense in the Force that the fandom probably, rightfully, takes a great deal of issue with Revenge of the Sith, but I think it may actually be the strongest of the prequel movies. The rise of Darth Sidious was perhaps the best plot of the prequels, since it was cultivated well from the beginning. Anakin's development could have gone better, but I blame that primarily on Hayden Christiensen's lacking performance (particularly in this movie -- he was never as scary or as lording as he should »
- Allison Keene
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