disappointing and banal

Rating: 3/10 (1 June 2005)

To be frank, this film really really disintegrated badly from what I thought could have been a very good and fitting end to a series that was declining and needed some much needed originality injected into it. Alas, Lucas put too many childish jokes, too many predictable clichés, too many dull and incomplete analogies, too many banal and poor acted sequences and FAR too much incredibly poor dialogue - spiced up with the odd flashy sequence for the masses to be entertained and Lucas hoped he could get away with shortchanging everyone again with his drivel.
I mean I used to love Star Wars. I admit it. Lucas really made me into a SW geek. Maybe its just my attachment to the old movies, but Lucas has really managed to make 3 extremely colourful, exciting yet bland movies. Lets start with its greatest flaws 1) Predictable sequences - the wholly predictable, yet devastating banal Anakin/Padme relationship - flung in with plentiful boring and bland lines. George, please come up with something a bit more inspiring than your pitiful explanation for Anakin's whole passage to the dark side... and make it believable!!!! 2) Poor acting - I thought Christiansen improved immeasurably since the last movie, yet he was still frighteningly inadequate. EM is one of my favourite actors - so what is he doing with such terrible scenes in an amazingly poor script!!!! Portman has little to shout about and even the actors with true clout are terribly underused - Jackson plays a boring and insipid character whose most notable contribution is to get himself killed!!! 3) Souped up with clichés and childish stupidity - I mean, clichés can be good - sometimes clichés are needed - its just when you cant make clichés without some originality you really can insult a half-intelligent movie goer.
Still, don't make me stop you from watching it. It just is that you might up seriously disappointed, and you will still have so many blank wholes for the millions of explanations that are left untold.