Two hours of yawns and frantic laughter.

Rating: 1/10 (23 May 2005)

After witnessing a plot, acting and flow of story as unconvincing and unprofessional as in ROTS unfold like a plague before our eyes, AOTC and TPM (out of all films) really stand out as excellent works of art. Thank you Lucas for the previous successful episodes and then ROTS which ruined them all.
The dialogue speaks for itself: "What have I done? I'll do anything you ask." (viewer going HUH? We only saw two half minute scenes of "persuasion" anyway)
"I'm not the Jedi I should be. I want Mo-o-ore" (viewer bursting laughing at the soap operatic intonation)
"She has lost her will to live." (Well why did she name the twins if they meant nothing to her?)
"Now you will die Sith" "No, no, YOU will die."
"I love you." "No, I love you."
"You're a good person." (I guess his kid Jett wrote the script.)
"You underestimate my powers." (voice of a guy in puberty trying SO hard to sound like a great warrior. Then dying merely because of being on lower ground. Why didn't Maul win then?)
"Activate the shields." "Look, the shields are activated."
Fight scenes: Hundreds of 10 second scenes of unrelated blur blur blur stuck together in no logical order. They are so fast that you can't make out anything at all. The Jedi have no wise or witty Jedi-style comments or gestures like they have in every other SW film, and the fights are just unoriginal and boring trailer-clips of special effects. Remember the fight and stealth in Kamino in AOTC? THAT had more atmosphere than this entire film.
What on Earth was done well in this lifeless and emotionless movie, apart from Yoda and his scenes? (Well, even they lacked Yoda's deeper wisdom.) Well, Anakin's "You are with me or you are my enemy" was quite an amusing 'quote', and some of Palpatine's well-acted suggestions in the Opera scene were a glimpse of what the movie could have been about. Unfortunately Palpatine only had few brief scenes. The excellent Cristopher Lee as Dooku was killed in two seconds without any hint of remorse, and replaced by the most boring villain in film history, whose arms resemble egg whippers... You heard right.
Where was the Imperial March? Instead we had corny violin music to emphasise the fact that the movie was more of an unintentional comedy than tragedy. I laughed more in this film than any other SW film, and this was supposed to be a dark and touching epic.
Overall, admitting that I don't have a habit of watching bad films, this is contesting for the place as the worst film I have ever seen. (and AOTC is way way up there as a medium good film, since at least it had a flowing story and nice menacing 'stealth' atmosphere)