At least there won't be a seventh...

Rating: 3/10 (26 May 2005)

Depressing, gratuitous scenes of violence and special effects overload. For a movie series inspired by adventures such as Flash Gordon, this movie abandons that noble concept. Numerous scenes could've been left to the imagination which would have made the film shorter and given it a PG rating. Both would have been welcome. This movie makes me wish that a "new director's cut" could be made by someone else to remove the things that were tolerated only because it was George Lucas and Star Wars, but would not be tolerated by any studio from almost any other director. It seems to me that George was seduced by the dark side of self-indulgence.