Very good movie for a third sequel

Rating: Null/10 (23 October 1999)

Just to state the obvious, the effects are outstanding. When the droids prepare for battle, they all turn around at the same time - but not synchronised. The only way you know they are effects is because these things can't happen. Huge battle tanks don't float in air.
I was a bit dissapointed by the acting. These aren't bad actors, as we know from their precious performances. But you don't feel with them, like you did in the first three films. Luke Skywalker was an innocent young man, who proved to be special. That's something we can identify with. Han Solo was a real smuggler. He's also easily identified with.
But Qui-Gon Jinn and young Obi-Wan Kenobi seem to lack all emotion. If this is supposed to be a quality of Jedi's, then why do I see these qualities in Yoda? And he's puppet.
Overall, I hardly saw any emotion in any of the actors, except for Anakin and the computer-generated and puppet ones. I think the kid was good: he acted exactly like a boy of this age.
It's a shame that they created a 'scientific' explanation of the Force. I'm not relogious, but the mystic that surrounded it gave it something special. Now, "May the Force be with you" means "May you have many little critters in your body".
Generally, it looked much like a remake of episode 4 'A new hope', with the princess or queen, the pilots jumping in their fighters, the exploding big thing in space after they blow up some minor part inside, the ceremony at the end.
It may not be the best of the Star Wars series, but it fits in into them. All of them had a simple story, the good guys have green lasers and the bad guys have red ones.
Considering that's it's a prequel, twenty-two years from the first movie, it's very good. It has it flaws, but these I can live with.