"Brilliant"

The word used by my Irish friend (and Star Wars nut) Paul to describe Star Wars, Episode III, Revenge of the Sith.

I saw it yesterday. He's right, it's really, really good. I mean good as a movie, not good in comparison to Episodes I and II, not good as a Stars Wars movie, just good. I think that even the obligatory criticisms about George Lucas' dialogue are off base, and more a creature of critics looking for bad lines than there actually being bad lines. Put it this way: at no point in the movie did bad writing jump out at me. Further, the acting was amazingly solid after the first two. It seems like Lucas really spent a lot more time with the actors on this one.

Anyway, go see it. Then I want to have a discussion about in what order we should show them to our kids (I think I've changed my mind). Let me know.