the effects were good

Rating: 4/10 (21 May 2005)

When I worked at a video store,this was the line I would give when people asked about The Day After Tomorrow which was the new DVD release at the time.The rule of thumb was that we had to say something positive about a release no matter how bad it might be and that's the line I'm going to use here..The effects are good and some of the action sequence are also good but go by too fast and overload the senses in that you can't enjoy them...Same with the lightsaber battles...Some people say this is on par with Empire...Nowhere near it...The duel in Empire was like two predators stalking one another..The ones here feel like a speed race...As for story..What story??This movie feels incomplete in it's story and looks like the editing wasn't complete...Some scenes in fact feel incomplete unless you've read the novelization...And despite what all the Lucas yes-men say..it does not answer every question and I got no sense of wonder or excitement from the last few scenes at the end and the Vader appearance was over hyped...As for the acting....Ian McDirmid does the best job followed by Ewan McGregor...Dopn't get me started on the other two...They didn't have any chemistry in Ep. 2 and they don't here...One would think that by working with Ian McDirmid,Hayden Christiansen would be inspired to step it up a notch but doesn't...As for all this talk about the comparisons with Gearge Bush,as a conservative republican I don't see it mainly because that would require some level of intelligent writing and that isn't present...But the effects were good