Just about makes it..

Rating: 4/10 (11 January 2009)

The best of the three prequels and the only one I didn't get bored of watching. It has the usual visual flare piled on with virtuosity and then piled on some more and its not always engaging sometimes coming across like a computer game. But, there is an interesting story to follow. Namely, how does Anakin flip to the Dark Side. And it does have an excellent turn by Ian Mcdiarmid as Palpatine. Christopher Lee is great but we don't get enough of him and Yoda is always watchable. Ewan McGregor is better than in Phantom but there is something of the Mary Poppins Dick Van Dyke about his Alec Guinness impression. There are some memorable scenes particularly the final fight and anything with Yoda. However, the main let down of the film is that the Anakin story just isn't believable enough and in order to enjoy the film you just have to kinda of let that go. And there aren't enough meaty characters to get your teeth into. Which leaves you thinking that Lucas got lucky in having the original trio of Ford, Hammil and Fisher. So its definitely worth a look. It will entertain, mostly.