Extremely lackluster film

Rating: 5/10 (1 December 2006)

Like the rest of the prequel trilogy, this movie is quite weak, showing Lucas to be incompetent. It is amazing that the same man did the first three Star Wars movies twenty five years ago, as these movies are universally worse.
Revenge of the Sith suffers from a variety of problems: wooden dialog, general bad acting, a poor story arc, and extreme and random fluctuations in character mentality. The actors in the movie are universally poor; the only worthwhile acting in the movie is done by Obi-Wan. The movie suffers from bad writing and bad acting, and it delivers a number of wince-worthy and plain old poor dialog. The story arc is known before the movie even begins; you know the Jedi all have to die and Anakin Skywalker has to become a Sith. Now, you'd think this could happen gradually; oh no. Skywalker becomes a sith in the course of about, say, 30 seconds, going from "You can't execute a defenseless man" to "I'll go and kill children for you, my master". Lucas tries to make Vader look all the more vicious by having him randomly kill children, but really it just comes off as poor writing.
The only reason to watch this movie is to watch the special effects; the movie itself is awful, and is not worth watching at all. Even the special effects can't make up for the bad writing; the fight between a guy with four arms and one of the best Jedi there is ends up being quite anticlimactic and not a high point of the movie; how cool it SHOULD be completely overshadows how weak the scene actually is.
In the end, this movie was better than Episodes I and II, but nowhere near the level of the original trilogy. People sometimes claim it is good, but this is really just a contrast to Episodes I and II; compared to actual good movies, this movie is mediocre at best, and all it has going for it is the special effects.
Your imagination of the origins of Darth Vader are far cooler than this movie. I'd not recommend watching it.