Failure

Rating: 1/10 (26 April 2006)

Having seen the horror of Episode 3, I think it is safe to say that George Lucas has truly managed to perform an act of cultural blasphemy.
TRUE: he created Star Wars. He set the ball rolling. And he is indeed a man with some very good ideas. He has just become hopeless at developing them.
To have not sat in the directors chair for 20 years and then suddenly think you can step up and direct something on the scale of Star Wars is just plain foolhardy; and if I may say so, extremely arrogant on the part of Mr. Lucas. 20 years ago he was brilliant. The first Star Wars film and THX 1138 more than prove that. He has however gotten old. Gotten too dependent on special effects. He's lost his edge, and Star Wars has paid the price for it.
Episodes 1,2, and 3 are films best forgotten. They are an insult to the original trilogy. Not just for the plot inconsistencies, the extremely bad acting, the over used special effects, the weak duologue's, the lack of character development, Jar-Jar Binks, and the fact that a child could have figured out the Sith's plans faster than the Jedi did; but for the fact that George Lucas should have known better.
This ill fated trilogy could have been a masterpiece. It could have been three of the greatest films ever made. It could have... SHOULD have... but wasn't. In the end, it is all just light and sound signifying nothing.