Lucas: Great storyteller, horrible director

Rating: 7/10 (3 June 2005)

This will be short and sweet...Episode III is by far the best of the prequels, however it is still not the Star Wars that we all grew up with, and I'm not even from the original Star Wars generation. Once again the acting is dry, really, really dry. Once again there is too much CGI. I really hate how Lucas feels the need to use CGI just cause he can. Real creativity and power come from those who choose not to use all they have at once...Lucas chooses to use CGI in EVERY scene! It's distracting and just plain annoying. When the first and second trilogies are visually compared generations from now people will wonder why the first looks so fake and then second so real. Nice job George. Like I said once again the acting is dry, like Episode I and II. It's easy to see that Lucas can just not direct actors. Even the amazing, Oscar Nominated Natalie Portman is boring here! So to all those who are rating this a 10, please stop. Casablanca is a 10, Chinatown is a 10, The Empire Strikes Back is a 10. Revenge of the Sith is not. It's nice to the trilogy come to a close, however I know that many directors could have made this 7 into a 10 and that would have been amazing! Through the 2+hrs there are so many poor transitions and slow scenes and then heavy action scenes that one can easily ask what's going on? Forget about character development too. Yeah Anikan becomes evil, goes to the dark side....but it's weak. His emotions are weak, and that just goes back to the acting. Go see this in the theaters, just because it's Star Wars, but don't get your hopes up. All in all this does not deserve to be 236 on the IMDb list, and it does not deserve a 10. A 7 yes...it's an entertaining movie, but nothing GREAT. Good, but only good. Go see is and wait for James Earl Jones' horrible line, you'll know it when you hear it. Please just stick to coming up with the stories George, get some help with the writing and just give the directing chair to someone else.