Lacluster movie

Rating: 7/10 (21 May 2005)

This was the pinnacle of all the Star Wars movies and one of the ones that me and some friends most looked forward to. I'm not a major guru of Star Wars but my friend I went with was. And he completely disregarded to movie ever exists now because of how he was disappointed. But I like to look at things with an open mind and take heed of some things he mentioned. From the start of the movie it began with Count Dooku having less lines to say than the goofy droids later in the movie. As he has his own head chopped off my Anakin. It would have been nice for the Count to at least give some uncommon wisdom at that point or something, anything.
Then of course I felt that Anakin was a bit over dramatized in the areas he was making his voice all grainy and deep. It just seemed out of place. Then when Anakin bows down to the Constantine very shortly after chopping off Mace's hand and vow loyalty to him. It felt like that was rushed and not well thought out. It put the ultimate Cheese factor to me about this entire movie.
After it was all over I felt that only Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) was the only well done character and he deserves a reward for a great job. But other than that I simply asked my friend at the end of the movie. "Did I miss something?" Because I truly felt I missed something. And he replied, "No, it just wasn't there". The whole movie was very cheesy in many places and lacked dialog to the point that it reminded me of so many B movies. Other than the fact the special effects were really nice. Which of course to me is a given, considering Lucas Arts specializes in such.
But then of course the great Yoda all wise as he may be, all of a sudden speaks to Obi-Wan and talks about becoming immortal, and he has been speaking to Qui-Gon. Which makes me think.. So how does Darth Vador (Anakin) find out? because in Episode 6, he is a blue glowy as well. Not to mention how cheesy the delivery was on those lines.
Also Padme was well done by Natalie Portman. Even though I felt she was a little less "tough" than in the previous episodes.
Overall it was a let down, compared to the rest of the movies this one is the absolute worst of them all. Personally My favorites are Episodes 2 and 5.