It's the best of any of the Star Wars movies for me. Hayden Christiansen may not be a great actor but literally every other actor involved is great, and Ewan MacGregor is amazing (It's also worth noting that Harrison Ford is literally the only good actor in the originals but I won't get into that now). The story for this one makes more sense than any of the originals and adds a level of politics and historical/mythological background that is completely absent from the originals. The action and effects have obviously gotten better with time and because the people involved with Star Wars have so much experience. This movie is exactly what it was meant to be the Fall of Troy combined with Julius Caesar and a little bit of Oedipus thrown in there just for fun.

Best of the New.

Rewatching this in cinema, and honestly, it's objectively pretty bad throughout. But that doesn't prevent it from being a fun and special experience. My rating is definitely inflated from pure nostalgia.

The lightsaber duels makes this one good. The writing should have been better than the Jedis knowing nothing of the Anakin and Padme relationship. I mean they did kiss in front of the Jedis during the arena scene in Episode 2. While Anakin said to Obi-Wan a couple of times how he wanted Padme bad. Anakin turning to the darkside because he believed only that can save Padme. That the Jedis were the bad guys. I didn't 100% buy either. Since how can he think something called the darkside is good ? The same way the Nazis or terrorists think they are the good guys I guess. Ewan McGregor isn't bad at all but he was a choice for worse actor of 2005 at imdb that year. He was far better than Hayden. He gave it his all as Obi-Wan and has even been called miscast. Ian McDiarmid however steals the show when he finally reveals to the Jedis that he is a Sith Lord. I also like how Palpatine turned on Count Dooku in favor of wanting a new apprentice, Anakin. Since if you think of it; he did the same with Luke and Vader in Return of the Jedi. He wanted Luke to kill his father and join him. It shows how little his apprentices mean to him since he easily trades them in when he finds someone more powerful.

The third instalment of the "prequels", Revenge of the Sith is the best of the trio and bridges the gap between the three first and the rest in an OK manner. The dialogue is still cringeworthy, and the heavy reliance on the bad CGI still weighs heavily on the "enjoyment" factor, however...there's a lot more action sequences in this one, so it actually makes the darn thing watchable... Hayden Christensen is still the worst thing to happen to the Star Wars franchise after the Gungans, but there's a rather great leap in the performances of both Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid, and Natalie Portman is so beautiful in this one that whatever she does is ok with me. Revenge of the Sith isn't exactly a movie you would need nor want to see if it hadn't been for the small fact that it IS a Star Wars movie, but since it is, we'll probably have to deal with it for years to come... The ending is the best part, and I'm not only saying that BECAUSE it's the literal end but because it's one of the things that were actually quite good about this movie. Watch it if you are watching the whole series...skip it otherwise.