Not at all up to what could be expected of a must-see installment

Rating: 6/10 (29 November 2003)

Christopher Lee is good as always as our main villain and Ian McDiarmid could have been had he not been such a dead giveaway Emperor to-be. That is what can be said about this movie. The characters are narrow (the term Hamill-acting gets a new meaning here) and the surroundings a display of the effects department rather than a story foundation. The effects are often stunning but mostly cartoon like and utterly unconvincing. CGI characters much too often do not blend in like they should but become obvious inserts. All in all not at all up to what could be expected of a must-see installment. Entertaining, though, it is.