I'm not very excited about this.....

Rating: 5/10 (19 May 2005)

The good thing about this movie is that it tied the two trilogies together and explained Darth Vader's fall from grace.
I loved the first trilogies, they were new explorations in film making. But special effects of the kind in this movie have long reached their zenith and are today old hat. Fewer obvious special effects, and more real scenes set in real places would have served the audience better.
I thought that most of the movie was average at best. For the first half hour I felt like I was in someones living room while they played video games on their Play Station, except with very good surround sound and I could only watch. The early battle scenes were not necessary and probably only put in to sell video games. It had the feel of a video game.
A movie can't have good acting unless a movie has a good script, I'm afraid that the actors were let down by the script. Many of the scenes were overly melodramatic at times, and there weren't many laughs that succeeded in breaking the tension. Even the devoted fans who stood in long lines weren't laughing during my showing.
This movie did not make my hair stand on end like the first ones did, and I have a lot less hair these days. Maybe its my age, I just couldn't relate.