Great CGI  but otherwise disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (26 May 2005)

Hmmm tricky one! The CGI and action are everything you would expect from the latest  and final  installment of the Star Wars series, but that's about where the praise ends. The storyline would have been better as a half-hour TV show rather than dragging it out over the full length of a full feature film, as there just isn't enough substance to keep your attention. Hayden Christensen is awfully wooden as Anakin Skywalker. When he is still a good guy, he doesn't provoke any reaction from the viewer, and even at the end, in spite of the fact that he becomes the evil Darth Vader, and commits some fairly hideous acts, he still doesn't make me want to hate him. Coupled with these disappointments, is the fact that George Lucas has said that this is the final installment, even though I am old enough to remember, when the original Star Wars film was released in the late 70s, that it was then described as the first of NINE films. What happened to the last three?