BUT A NUMBER, age is. The final reel of Attack Of The Clones is proof that you’re never too old to throw down —Christopher Lee was 80-odd when he unleashed Count Dooku’s (or, Darth Tyranus’) Sith Lord skills. And Yoda? Well, he wasn’t far off 900, still managing to front-flip and back-flip and twirl his way through a lightsaber battle that blew minds back in 2002. The original trilogy’s puppet Yoda holds the character’s fuzzy-felt heart, but his CGI iteration in Clones proved much more nimble —no longer restricted to being Luke Skywalker’s backpack, able to careen across the screen and prove his status as an all-out Jedi Master. Lee, meanwhile, relishes every ’saber-swipe, in a duel that could previously only have played out in fanboys’
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