What a disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (24 May 2005)

The story everybody has been waiting for...the grand finale. What a disappointment.
I keep reading that a lot of people find this a major improvement compared to the other two prequels. I hate to disagree, but for me this is the worst movie of the six.
Shots (digitally showing off) that should have taken 30 secs at maximum last for 10 minutes. The film lasts almost 2.5 hours and the real story is compressed in 45 minutes, the rest is dead weight.
Missed opportunities and other flaws:

the powerful Dooku is killed after hardly a fight - the elevator scene and R2D2 spitting out oil: dead weight - the whole nightmare part - Anakin acting like a spoiled child when he is neglected by the Council - Anakin's reaction to Palpatine's coming forward as a Sith Lord - the arrest by Mace Windu and a group of Jedi: they are all - but Windu - killed by Palpatine after 5 seconds????? - Anakin's reaction to the death of Mace Windu: "what have I done" and 1 minute later he subjects to Palpatine and is prepared to kill all Jedi's (even children) - Anakin almost killing Padme...you have got to be kidding. Wasn't saving Padme the reason for turning to the Dark Side? - the elemental cry out of Dark Vader when he finds out Padme is dead

I have always been prepared to accept a lower level of acting and dialogues because of the magic of Star Wars, but here the magic's gone (it has become boring and noisy) and the acting as well as the dialogues, psychology of the characters as well as the plot are way below level of what one can expect of a well made movie. It's a pity that such a great story has to end in such a bad way.