The Force is Yet again not with this movie

Rating: 3/10 (22 May 2005)

It is the best of the Star Wars prequels, it is the worst of movies. Lucas creates a visually stunning picture show, with amazing effects, interesting scenes, and dazzling perspectives. He then ruins all of this with a story that is so poorly written that suspending your disbelief is in effective. Darth Sidious couldn't convince me to join the dark side, he also couldn't act this way out of a paper bag. The portrayal of an extremely evil man is cookie cutter and stale. Natalie Portman must be getting lessons from Ian McDiarmid, because both of their styles are similar if not the same. They both take the poorly written lines, and poorly execute them. Hayden Christianson, is oh god bad throughout the movie. One would think that if a person was portraying what has a become a cultural icon for evil, that they would be able to do evil, instead we get to much of the whiny impetuous Anakin that we got in the other two movies. Ewan steal the show, and not just because he has * gasp* good intelligent lines, but because he really plays Obiwan Kenobit, as Jedi knight. If only somehow someone could have told me this movie was so bad I would have saved myself the money and gone to see Monster-In-law. At least at the end of that movie I would have gotten some love from my lady rather than an immense amount of criticism for yet another poorly chosen film.