Here is yet another “Frankenstein” figure that tries to do a lot of things, few of them screen accurate, and none of them good.  This is really meant to be a version of Grievous that duels with Obi-Wan on Utapau.  To start with, Grievous is wearing his cape, which he takes off before splitting his arms and going into windmill mode.  But even when he’s wearing the cape, it doesn’t really fall like it is sculpted here.  On screen, it mostly covers his shoulders fairly symmetrically, as near as I can tell, but this cape covers his body almost 360, with an opening down the left side.  Admittedly, it doesn’t look terrible when the figure is standing there with it on, it just doesn’t look like the film.  Not to mention, the on-screen cape is much darker than the accessory.

Since this figure doesn’t do the 4-arm split, it would stand to reason that it is meant to be Grievous after he crab-walks his cowardly self onto his wheelbike, and returns to his regular shape.  Due to the nature of the sculpt, he can’t ride the actual wheelbike toy, so he’s then meant to more specifically be from the platform fight.  Of course, the cape is long gone at that point.

He comes with a lightsaber and a blaster.  The former is screen-inaccurate because he’s already been de-sabered x4 prior to this point (even losing part of his hand by now).  Instead of the lightsaber, he should have come with the electrostaff that Obi-Wan brought along.  At least the blaster makes sense here.

And finally, there’s the exploding feature.  As an action feature, I’ve seen much worse.  It’s not terrible.  The aim here would be to provide some opportunity to recreate the moment where Obi-Wan kills Grievous.  Of course, in the actual film, there’s no significant explosion that tears apart Grievous’s body.  It’s more like catching fire with some sparks, and a few pieces flying out.  With the press of a button the torso jumps off the legs at the waist, splits into to parts, while exposing and jettisoning the gutsac - which is the majority of what remains of Qymaen jai Sheelal.  In the film, Grievous mostly just burns up inside his exoskeleton.  His gutsac doesn’t fly out like a neon meat loaf.

So taking all that into account, we’ve got a figure that has little to offer with regard to screen accuracy, including the action feature that works okay as designed, but is more or less something you’re not going to be interested in.  When you remove the cape, you’ll see that the figure is lightly articulated, but very hard to pose because the figure seems to want to come apart.  He doesn’t interact with the accessories well either.

This figure really serves no purpose, as it doesn’t provide any redeeming value to make it worth having if you have almost any other Grievous figure. 

Unless, of course, you enjoy pushing the ass button.

5 stars.
3/10