good but not excellent...

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2005)

Many people have complained that this is not a REAL Star Wars movie, that is too childlish, and, all in all, bad. I don't really agree.
This movie starts the saga more or less 20 years before the original movie, telling the tale of how was Darth Vader in his youth and how he started to become a Jedi.
The acting was pretty good (although some of it was kinda wooden because of the excess of blue screen) and the special effects are top-notch, something the director, George Lucas, is specialized in. The story is pretty interesting and character development is VERY present, although some of them are not exactly three-dimensional. And speaking of characters, the infamous Jar Jar Binks is not THAT bad, but can get pretty annoying sometimes.
The space battles are as exciting as the ones in the original trilogy, but the climatic lightsabre battle is amazing. All in all, a very good movie, although the original Star Wars movies are superior.