concluding an awful exposition of the original trilogy.

Rating: 1/10 (24 May 2005)

In my opinion this film is the worst of all three prequel trilogies, everything wrong with the first two is in abundance here. Every line of spoken dialogue in the original trilogy has suffered an exposition in the prequel trilogy which only serves to sully enjoyment of the original films. There are incestuous and needless relationships between characters and far too many self-referential moments which seem to serve no other purpose than remind viewers of a really good film a long, long time ago. The CGI is distracting and not necessary to tell the story, and despite advances, does not look real. The acting is terrible and emotionless. The film is too long.
But my real criticism is that in attempting to explain and show everything in the Star Wars galaxy it leaves the viewer no room to imagine or think for themselves. That's how I felt watching it - slowly my own interpretation of the original trilogy being replaced by one big CGI mess with poor story and acting. But perhaps this was inevitable.