I would not believe that it would be this good.

Rating: 9/10 (20 May 2005)

There were a couple things that disappointed me. Like Padme. I guess I was a little unhappy about the way they portrayed her here. That was not that way I see her. So yeah, a little disappointed with the wimpy Padme.
There were some moments - usually the so called *romance* ones that made me go 'uh...' they were a little off. A little on the unbelievable side.
Some people didn't like Anakin's fall. I thought it was brilliant. OK at first I was like 'uh...' and then I thought about it, and to me it made good sense. Up until that point Anakin had been warring, pulled between the two points, unsure where to go, and then Palpatine tricked him into killing Mace, Anakin realised what he had done, and he sort of collapsed beneath it. To me he sort of seemed to decide that he was damned and there was nothing to do but go the whole way. At least if he was going to fall he may as well as do it saving Padme.
Of course that could me trying to read meaning into the scene. I don't know, by that point I was a gonna, completely absorbed.
I though Mace's death was brilliant, very much fitting of a Jedi of his calibre. I was horrified at the younglings deaths (OMG!! That was awful! I am still in shock, all the little children!).
Most of Ewan McGregor's scenes were well done, better than I thought he'd done in the other movies anyway, although there were a couple of times, that it seemed like he didn't know what he was doing in a SW movie! I thought the battle between Yoda and Palpatine was great. Some of the theatre actually broke into spontaneous applause when Yoda rammed the red guards into the wall. The cinema I was at were definitely Yoda fans. Can't say I disagree, I never really liked him before this movie, but Wow. I've been converted. The is one Jedi Master who knows when and where to fight.
The final battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin blew me away! Fantastic! Whatever else you can say about the PT movies the sabre fights are just brilliant, and this really took the cake. The physical surrounds of it. The fight itself and the emotion on the part of both of them. At the end I was going, 'just kill him!' because it was so awful.
Then you have Luke and Leia being born, and Padme's death. :( OH MY GOD!! I loved it. I have to see it again, and soon!