Sci-Fi documentary...

Rating: 7/10 (5 September 2006)

This film has a very documentary feel about it. It is very slow in some parts and in other parts, it just doesn't have the magical dazzle that the original's had. It has a good story, but it is badly written and the boy who plays as Anakan was poorly cast.
George Lucas thought, as he did with the other two prequels, that a million visual effects would make the audience drop their jaws like they did with the originals. And while this did have it's technical spectacles, nothing that would compare with other films that had been released at the time.
Visual effects are too common to be the best part of a film. There is only a small number of films that will come out every few years that will have a visual effect well worth remembered. Gollum, Kong, Aslan, etc. But this didn't have anything like that.
There were quite a few unnecessary scenes in this movie that could have been trimmed down to give the movie a faster flow. Things were recycled from the first film that were completely obvious. (i.e. Anakan flying up and blowing up the space station/Luke blowing up the death star.) The film seems more, like I said, a documentary made about the back story of Star Wars rather than the actual back story. We don't really get to know the characters personally like we did in the original trilogy and, all in all, a very poor film to be a Star Wars film.
I guess Star Wars films were great back in the day because they had effects that could not be beat. In this day and age, though, it has to have more than that. Because the effects CAN be beat and WILL be beat.
This wasn't the worst out of the new trilogy, but it certainly wasn't the best.