Yes, it had some bad dialog, and yes, it smelled slightly of cheese in a few parts. But Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith (imdb | rotten tomatoes | metacritic) was without a doubt the best Star Wars movie to come out since Return Of The Jedi. In fact, it may be better than Jedi; I’ll need a few more viewings to really tell.

It had more (and better) action. The acting didn’t seem quite as wooden. The battle scenes were killer. They did a nice job of tying episode III to episode IV (albeit with a few continuity problems, but I suppose only geeks like me would notice those). They added wookies and beefed up the screen time for R2D2, while practically eliminating C3PO and Jar-Jar. And the plot seemed to have more flow this time; in episodes I & II it felt like we were watching set pieces being moved around a stage turn by clunky turn.

It wasn’t a great movie, but none of them were. I just think that Lucas finally made another episode with the same feel as the originals. So if this really is the last Star Wars movie that I’m to see, it went out on a pretty good note.