Overrated

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2005)

I feel this movie was VERY overrated, from what I heard from people it was supposed to be in the same class as the classic ones. it's not. Sure it was a good movie, but I was disappointed, I had high expectations. Some of the lightsaber fighting scenes in the beginning of the movie were really bad, and you could see how fake both it and the blue screen generated background was. The wookies had too little screen time, the emperor looked and sounded really silly, And the last scene with Vader where he screams no...wow that was pathetic, they could have gone without the no. There are many good moments though, but that would be spoiling now wouldn't it ;)Ep 3 had the same feel like ep 2 in the beginning, but it slowly turned darker and darker up until the end of the movie, if you ask me they should have used the dark tone in the entire movie instead of letting it slowly turn it dark, because it was the dark part of the movie which was the saving grace.
an overall good movie and certainly better than episode 2, but as I said overrated. It certainly doesn't deserve an 8, I'd give it MAX 7.5. This didn't turn out to be the epic conclusion I though it would be...