During the climax of Revenge of the Sith, the third Star Wars prequel film, an angst-ridden Anakin Skywalker snarls at his former master, Obi-Wan Kenobi: "You underestimate my power!" (Obi-Wan proceeds to sever three of Anakin's limbs, burn off all his skin, and leave him for dead. Anakin later becomes the cyborg villain Darth Vader, dark enforcer of the Galactic Empire.)
To hear the critics tell it, people disliked this origin story. The three prequels—The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005)—were largely written off as disappointments.
