George Lucas f***** it up (spoilers)

Rating: 3/10 (22 May 2005)

this gets 4 stars only for the special effects. Acting is unbelievably bad and the script unbelievably idiotic. One can leave the first and the last 10 minutes of the movie but the rest needs to be redone.
General Grievous can be left out entirely, unnecessary for the plot. Count Dooku should have staid in there much longer instead of Grievous.
The stormtroopers turning on the Jedi was when the movie got interesting.
But Anaking turning to the dark side was like "Hmm this is not the Jedi way.....but well if I can save Padme by joining the dark side not matter how ridiculous it seems Ill just join the dark side, massacre all Jedis including the younglings....OK Ill join the dark side" There were poor attempts to bring over the Jedi philosophy, in Empire Strikes Back Yoda even as a puppet was much more convincing than here in CG glory (all this CG will be outdated in a few months anyways), when there are living creatures made in CG one does very well see the difference from the real personas.
Now for the "Chosen One", Matrix, been there, done that, its just simply a crappy attempt at lifting the storyline by introducing the theme of "The Chosen One" who would bring balance.
Another critique point: Palpatine turning out to be the Sithest of the Sith, I don't know why everyone says the actor has done a good job on this, I found it rather pathetic, a good villain is someone the audience hates, but he seems so pathetic and "nice", one doesn't hate him.
If Irvin Kershner would have directed this one it would have turned out awesome, he has more a feeling for actors than George Lucas, Georgy is not firmly on the ground with his feet, so the big Episode 3 bubble got big colorfull, as well as dark and violent in the end, but the bubble had to burst and after the bubble bursts nothing is left......except for the question, why all this? The only really good thing to report are the last few mins from when Anakin almost burnt to death and without arms and legs gets to become the Darth Vader we knew from the first trilogy...
Sci-Fi Masterpiece? hmmm, good thing there's "Spaceballs" to take pressure off having to take Star Wars too seriously, if I want to see something seriously and deep I watch "2001: A Space Odyssey", still unmatched in the Sci Fi genre, if I wanna hold my head and be powerless over George Lucas & Cos marketing power and cry out "Whyyyyyyyyy??????" I can watch Episode 3.