Did Lucas save the franchise?

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2005)

Last night 18th of may, i went to see the Belgium premiere of Ep III... at 0.01 am... I was among the first Belgian peeps to see the first public viewing and i have to say, i felt honored... Not only is the Star Wars franchise one of the biggest franchises of all time... This would be the movie that would link the new trilogy with the classic one, finally our questions would be answered. But was ep III worth the viewing? Lemme first say that ep III is still not a perfect movie. The effects are great most of the time, which was to be expected but the acting was awful, now i expected Hayden to be crap, again, but this time around, even Nat portman, Ewan McGregor and even Ian mcdiarmid couldn't convince me. They looked so fake, what wasn't the case in the previous two installments. It surprised me. The story itself does solve the missing pieces of the puzzle however, anakin switching from the light to the dark side was executed in an unbelievable way.. They should've given it a bit more time, now it really is like this... light one minute, dark the next...
All in all, go see this movie, especially if you r a sw fan, you kinda owe it to yourself :P