A good film

Rating: 8/10 (13 April 2018)

It was overall a good film although I thought there was far too many gushy romance scenes with Anakin and Padme.
I liked watching how Palpatine played both sided in orchestrating the Clone Wars; using his apprentice Dooku to build the Confederate movement and turning them into a military threat, then influencing the Senate into giving him greater power within the Republic until he was able to instate the Clone army (having ordered their creation in secret years before)
I thought The big fight scene with Dooku in the launch bay was cool (to a point.) when he started against Obi-Wan and Anakin it started well with Dooku using his force lightning to take out Anakin briefly and face Obi-Wan solo, but then I thought Obi-Wan was a bit feeble against the Sith Lord, and the minimal cut to his arm and leg seemed unlikely to disable him as much as it did.
The fight with Dooku and Anakin started well, it was a well choreographed fight and I enjoyed watching it, but clearly Anakin paused in the middle as Dooku posiitioned his lightsabre and swing to cut off his arm - it looked very unnatural and VERY staged.
It goes without saying that Dooku Vs Yoda was an epic fight.
The War erupted thanks to Anakin ad Obi-Wan, both had been captured by the Confederacy and were about to be executed until the Jedi intervened and were faced by the Confederacy army.
With a perfectly timed arrival the Clones joined the fight and thus began the Clone War, with Palpatine pulling the strings on both sides.