The best of the Prequals

Rating: 7/10 (19 August 2006)

I was very excited to see this movie after I first saw the teaser trailer in the movie theater. When I saw it, it had definitely lived up to my expectations. The movie follows the story of the rise of the empire, and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christiansen)'s fall to the dark side. However, I really think that if you haven't seen it, it shouldn't be on your top 5 of your list of movies to see. Lucas has become a very bad writer, a "love" scene with Anakin and Padme (Natalie Portman) really shows that Lucas cannot write romantic dialogue. Also Hayden Christiansen is an extremely bad actor. Ian McDiarmid brilliantly portrays Emperor Palpatine, who convinces Anakin that Padme will die in child birth, and the only way to save her is to turn to the dark side and acquire new powers that will stop her from dying. Natalie Portman (Padme) and Ewan Mcgregor (Obi-Wan) both play their parts really well. The best part in the movie is the final battle at the end. One last thing is that the movie is extremely long: I think it's almost three hours. All in all, this is an average movie that is fun to watch, but not a very good quality movie.