Review of War (2007) by Robobob — 12 Dec 2017

Ewan McGregor is awesome again as Obi-wan and Ian McDarmid as Palpatine but the rest of the rest cast ranges from poor to forgettable. Though you can see it from a mile away the betrayal of the Clones with Order 66 is probably the best moment of the movie. Unfortunately, the moment that the entire trilogy, nay the entire Star Wars series up to that point, counts on fails miserably. That moment is Anakin's falls to the darkside and it is unforgivable thus the hard rating. From the original trilogy we were told that Anakin was seduced by the power of the darkside. Instead it went something like this:

Through half of the movie, Anakin is shown to be a trusted Jedi who has a great relationship with his mentor and friend Obi-wan Kenobi.

When the two Jedi friends are separated, Palpatine starts "luring" Anakin to the darkside with tales of the Sith and trying to pit the Jedi Knight against the council.

Anakin finally learns that Palpatine is the Sith Lord that they have been looking for. He never puts 2 and 2 together that, as the Sith Lord, Palpatine has been playing both sides of the war. Obvious because there are always only 2 Sith and Dooku was named as a Sith earlier in the movie. Palpatine has been the reason for so many Jedi and Clone Troopers murdered and countless of civilians killed over the past few years. Anakin doesn't seem to care.

Palpatine feeds him some line that he can help him save Padme from death. This is the guy that hid from Anakin for 13 years the fact that he was the sworn enemy of the Jedi.

At first Anakin goes to inform the Jedi Council who immediately send a group over to arrest the chancellor. Here we see the worst excuse for a lightsaber fight in Star Wars' history. It's just laughable. Jedi MASTERS literally just stand there while they get stabbed.

Anakin walks in at the last minute and has to make a quick decision to save:

A) the sworn enemy of the Jedi that just lied to him for 13 years.

B) his friend, colleagues and brothers who helped raise him since a boy.

The rest goes down in terrible cinematic history.

Palpatine's first order after Anakin's heart wrenching decision is to go back to the temple and murder everyone he has ever known... and some children.

Anakin goes from heroic war-hero savior to child slayer in less than 2 hours.

Where was the gradual seduction to the power of the darkside? Instead we got some seduction by a creepy old liar and one hasty split second decision. These scenes literally ruin everything you thought you ever knew about Darth Vader and Star Wars up until those moments.