OK so its not what it used to be! But I was 4 yrs old then.

Rating: Null/10 (18 May 2005)

Saw ROTS about an hour ago and read some comments about the film. Lots giving 10/10 and some giving 1/10.
I personally have enjoyed all 3 prequels and found many scenes to be entertaining. Yes I have cringed at times with wooden dialect but if I were to have watched the first 3 (IV,V and VI) films for the first time today I would probably be doing the same and also laughing at the SFX.
ROTS gave us the finalisation of the story that was to become in a New Hope. At the end of the day we all knew what was to happen but I still wanted to see all the details of how annakin becomes Darth Vader.
A lot of complaints have been made about Hayden Christensen playing Anakin that he wasn't strong enough for the part. I thought he did a great job of turning Head strong Teen Padoin to Confused and insecure Adult to Vader. I think People have preconceptions on how this character should have been and therefore disliked how the character was portrayed by Lucas.
This film did add more emotion to the characters than the previous 2 and Obi won becomes more jovial than his early serious and unemotional character in TPM.
I found there to be a few to many tie ins from the all the prequels to the Early star wars films. E.g the droids, Chewbacka, and even the asteroid where Han parked the millennium falcon in ESB. This is supposed to be a vast and huge universe. These were all the things trying to pander to the old fans but they were some of the things that left the movies a bit cold, which in my eye was the only flaws with the films. All these flaws were not to do with the actual films but because of my love of the old films and the ideas i had built up in my head of what i wanted from the prequels.
The first star wars film a new hope had around 2/3rds of the Original scenes and dialect removed because it was so bad and it was replaced by more special effects and action sequences. I think if you took the dialect from the original movie then you would probably have about 10 pages worth, which kind of makes you think.
The next point i would like to make is about the politics involved within the film, corrupt government and dictatorship that is said to resemble Bush although I believe that it resembles Hitler more so than Bush. All this may be tiresome to some people who just want action between good versus bad. Things just Arne't that simple as we learnt at the very end of ROTJ. For the younger viewers all this will be fresh and new and will probably scope a new generation of Star Wars fans who will think more deeply about who they vote for in the elections. The Old generation still holding onto the hope that there Jedi powers will kick in any minute so they can right the wrongs of the world.... Daydreamers.
Overall I enjoyed the film, Acting 5/10 OK, so they don't have much to work on so we can forgive them. Story 8/10 its a much better story than the previous prequels. having said that this story is easier to tell. SFX 10/10 flawless and not as detached as the previous 2 films Overall i give it a 7/10 It was never as good as the first one a New Hope but then again neither was riding a roller-coaster for the second time or getting drunk for the second time or hearing certain records for the second time. We all love that time in 1977 when we first heard the music when we first saw Vader and the light sabre or even the fact that you were seeing space ships in space firing lasers at each other. Moments like that can never be redone to give you that intense feeling that something wonderful is going to happen.
Until that next memorable moment in your life comes along appreciate what we have now.