My Least Favorite Of All The Movies

Rating: 5/10 (9 June 2005)

While I still did enjoy this movie, it didn't really impress me like any of the other five. The overall acting, story, scenes, and music were the least thrilling of any Star Wars movie.
In terms of the acting, I really didn't like the choice of Hayden in this movie even though he did redeem himself in Revenge of the Sith. His lines were spoken with stale emotion and had pretty much the same facial expression through the entire movie. His emotion towards Padme wasn't believable to me and emotionally regarded Obi-Wan, his mentor of 10 years, in the same way as he regarded anyone else. Other actors did well, but I think the loss of Liam Neeson really brought this movie's overall acting down.
Like any other movie in a trilogy, the middle acts as the transition between beginning and end and there's not always much that can be done to bring it up to par with the others. But, The Empire Strikes Back managed to pull it off and become the best movie of the first trilogy and proved it could be done. Unfortunately, AotC became the dull middle-of-the-trilogy movie I've come to expect. Nothing truly exciting happened and the movie had to rely on special effects and action sequences to become even the least-bit interesting.
What truly kept me from hating this movie was the last 20 minutes starting when Mace Windu and the rest of the Jedi jump into the action. While the saber battles weren't nearly as exciting as "Phantom" or "Revenge", they were still cool. Unfortunately, the movie relied too much on that last 20 minutes to make the movie good.
As for the music, I've always had one piece of music from each movie that was really cool...except for this one. The music was stale throughout the entire movie. It sounded like most of the music came from other movies. During the chase scene through Coruscant, I could have sworn I heard that music from that Quiddich game in the second Harry Potter! I will admit that Episode III redeemed the entire prequel and see that this movie was necessary in order to make the third one great. But, I still think things could have been better and therefore I give it five out of 10.