Every Star Wars Lightsaber Duel Ranked From Worst To Best

Yet, his debut duel comes in as one of the weaker of the bunch. As Anakin and Obi-Wan corner Dooku amidst his escape from Geonosis, he turns the tables on them and almost immediately overpowers them.

This results in a fight sequence where we never really get to see the stories master and pupil work together, which story-wise, is the entire point, but on a cinema-of-attractions level is a bit disappointing. Instead, Anakin is quickly rendered useless, and Obi-Wan has to face him alone, before Obi-Wan is then injured, forcing Anakin to face him alone.

That is not to say its all bad. In fact, Lucas gets to do some inventive camerawork here, blending some of his more avant garde preferences into the mix as Anakin and Dooku fight, and we get the wonderful moment of Anakin using two lightsabers, no matter how brief it is.

Ultimately, if this had been the big finale of Episode II it would have been a bit disappointing. Luckily for us, this film had something else waiting in the wings....