what a pile of garbage

Rating: 1/10 (9 March 2006)

I cannot believe this film made it into the top 250 of all time list! This comment may contain spoilers is a little bit misleading, since there is no plot to spoil. I'm not going to simply explain why this film is so bad, I will also add in how I believe the story should have gone.
1. Obi-Wan meets Anakin when he is about the same age as Luke in "A New Hope".
2. Anakin is actually persuaded it turn to the dark side, instead of "please turn to the dark side, c'mon I'll be your friend".
3. Film has a story, instead of just being a visual CGI piece of utter crap.
4. No more stupid light saber battles.
In essence this film tried to follow a formula that the original films followed. However while the originals did that, they actually had a story to go with them, which is why they were good films. In all three films, you have Jedi's fighting, with plenty of blocking blaster beams with their light sabers. A space battle and of course a good and a bad Jedi having a light saber battle.
All three films were just awful, but the last one was the worst yet. They made so many contradictions to the story it's not even funny. For example, Anakin made C3-P0. Come on. Remember in a New Hope, the first thing Obi-Wan says to Luke, "I don't remember ever owning a droid." Do you not think, that perhaps, just maybe, he might have remembered C3-P0, the droid made by his young apprentice, and R2-D2, the droid that on several occasions saved his life? What about, the little bit of dialog between Obi-Wan and Luke in Return of the Jedi. "The Emperor knew as I did, if Anakin were to have any offspring they would be a threat to him." Yet in this film the Emperor doesn't seem to care about Anakin's Children at all. Of course "He helped the Emperor hunt down and destroy the Jedi-Knights." I do not recall that happening in this film.
What happened to Jedi's hiding out for their own safety, while Darth Vader comes after them. He's not evil or scary in this film, just a complete dummy. Samuel L. Jackson is a good actor, but because Lucas can't direct, Samuel comes across as wooden and crap. Surely if Anakin were going to turn to dark side the emperor might have said something like, "Strike him down with all of your hatred and your journey to the dark side will be complete". Much like what he says to Luke in Return of the Jedi.
Anyway, if you like a CGI fest, with blocks of wood for actors and story with more holes than a dead gangster, this is certainly the film for you. Otherwise we should all raid Lucasarts and burn all remnants of this new trilogy and demand he remake them, because frankly they are an abomination. I am shocked that films of such poor quality make into cinema's. They are B movies at best.