![]() 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.
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