Almost but not quite

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2005)

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Whilst not the worlds greatest fan of the original 3 star wars as an adult i remember how i loved them with a child and so looked forward to the prequels, the first had elements of star wars but was too happy (i know it was meant to be), attack of the clones worked quite well and got about half way to the original 3 so i wasn't quite sure what to expect with episode III.
Overall i am impressed, visually the film is stunning although as i thought in previous films, modern computer generated Yoda just wasn't as good as clunky puppet Yoda from the originals, so visually other than that the film cannot be faulted.
The story as well in my opinion can't really be faulted that badly, certain points tend to stick with me for example how it appears to happen in a short space of time but padme appears to go through her entire pregnancy in that time either that or she hides the bump very well.
The film as a whole i liked and enjoyed, many have faulted and criticised the acting and dialogue, as an actor having bad dialogue is hard to work with as u are very stunted when saying it, and star wars has always been about the bad dialogue so in my opinion all the actors did well with what they had with special note going to Ewan McGregor, Ian McDiarmind and Samuel L Jackson (it is pretty fair to say he got the really cool death he craved so much).
there are only 4 individual things which i would criticise about this movie:
1. Why the need to go to Kasshyck and see Chewbacca other than to please a minority of fans who just want the films to link into the originals.
2. THOSE DAMN WIPES!!! My god it just began to really bug me, George Lucas must have just gone through his quota i was looking for some kind of note saying 'Sponsored by Adobe'
3. When the Emperor tells Vadar he killed Padme, i loved the idea of the loss of control of the force and that got the message across but the ultra-cheesy "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!".... Wrong!
4. Whilst i can get around Anakin's quick change to the dark side, the ferocity in which he does it doesn't ring true ... within like 10 mins he goes from regretting cutting off Windu's hand and leaving him to be killed to then alone slaughtering innocent children who trusted him.
As u can see these are not major things and by no means did it overly affect my enjoyment of the film (although i did cringe at Vadar's "NOOOOO")
I left the cinema and thought "That is the last time i will see Star Wars for the first time" and i felt disappointed, this film has ruined nothing for me and in my opinion it ranked up there with the original three because although this film had its faults the originals weren't perfect (clumsy trooper anyone?)