What a mess

Rating: 2/10 (9 November 2005)

If it wasn't called Star Wars, I would have not watched it longer than 20 minutes. What a pile of junk: The effects are plenty but unrealistic, the characters seem to simply walk through this environment without any influence on the climax and whoever searches for something plausible in their behavior will get very disappointed. Christopher Lee is too old for this role, not to mention that Yoda seems to be less of a cripple than thought, Anakin is a brat instead of a deep character and everything we see seem to be the result of a poll: What did you like most in the original trilogy. The moment I got closest to being shocked about the story was the droid factory, that looked as being taken out of a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Besides the origin of the storm troopers there simply is nothing in this movie making me wish to see again. The rest is more like a big video game sequence, and not worth watching it for two hours. A big budget and fancy CGI do not save a movie with a bad, bad screenplay. This movie hurts!