The best of the prequels... but ....

Rating: 1/10 (4 June 2005)

My criticisms are this: -
Anakin's relatively quick descent into the dark side, and naiveté despite his intense Jedi Training since childhood from Obi Wan.

The cheesiness and overly serious romance (The Carrie Fisher/Harrison Ford romance of the 80s is, admittedly difficult to top). Starting in Attack of the clones, and continuing on in this movie, there were never any really memorable laugh out loud lines and humorous scenes between Portman and Christensen. The romance was very mediocre.

Anakin: gazing dreamily at his wife - "You're so beautiful". Padme: "Only because of the love in my heart"
I had to stifle a laugh.
Anakin (Hayden Christensen) played the role quite well, however, and the looks on his face completely showed his emotion. It just seemed so comical that he's revealing Palpatine and the fact that HE is the Sith, supposedly being disgusted by it, and then one minute later calling him "my master".
But the scene stealer every time, in my opinion was that of Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan. The night before my family and I saw this movie we re-watched Star Wars IV (A New Hope), and the voice of Obi Wan was very good, and the physical resemblance to Alec Guinness was believable. The emotion was very moving.
The Light Saber scenes were well choreographed.