Not all I expected

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2002)

Well first let me say I was really looking forward to this installment in the series. After I left the theater last night it is safe to say I came away with mixed reactions.
First I'll state the good stuff. The battle scenes were fantastic. For the last 40 min the movie was great. Simply unbelievable. Ewan M., Natalie Portman, Ian, even Samuel J. were all good. This brings me to what I couldn't stand about the movie. Hayden as Anakin just did not work. He may be a good actor but his lines came across stale. It was as if he was overacting through the entire movie. I realize that there had to be some love scenes in the movie but I think they could have done it a lot better than what I saw. Basically he ruined so much of the movie. Just when I thought it was getting good it would cut back to him doing his whining and overacting. But as I said before the last 40 min or so were thrilling.
So all in all it's a mixed bag. If your going in expecting something like ESB then you will really be let down. But if you can go in open minded and try to get past the fact that Hayden just can't be dramatic when he needs to then I think it is a pretty decent movie. My final say is that it was good not great, and it was bad but not terrible. I just hope that either he acts better in EP3 or lucas ages Anakin more to where another actor can play him.