"If you're not with me, then you're my enemy!" "Only a Sith deals in absolutes!"

Rating: 2/10 (3 January 2006)

Finally caught this on PPV. As reams have been written about this final chapter, I'll be brief.
Some want to see Palpatine as a stand-in for a certain world leader, and refer to the above exchange as "proof" Georgie-boy shares their view. But they're giving him WAY too much credit! Lucas is a hack, period! Plot, dialog, character development, logic, and cohesiveness are concepts he has proved time and again totally escape him! It's no coincidence his best films have been written and directed by others. "Only a Sith deals in absolutes!" And a Jedi doesn't? Since when?
Speaking of plot and logic, if Anakin had a working brain cell, he'd play the Jedi and the Sith against each other, sit back as they destroy each other, then take over what's left of Dodge as its undisputed, all-powerful sheriff with no prune-faced hunchback or pointy-eared green midget to answer to!
There were times I felt I was stuck in a bad video game (the showdown between Anakin and Obi-Wan); other times, the visuals were really cool (Obi-Wan and Grievous.) The inconsistency of the CGI could stand as a metaphor for all six episodes!
But what really sent me was how easily the Jedi betray their lofty ideals at their moment of crisis. Instead of bringing Palpatine to justice, Windu goes vigilante, and Obi-Wan abandons Anakin as he endures utter agony. So much for Yoda's lectures on how fear and hatred are fast-tracks to The Dark Side, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Watching Hayden Christensen, I could only think of the injustice of it all: thousands of actors have more talent in their pinky than this guy has in his whole body, yet he has a place in movie history because he happened to be at the right place at the right time!