Lucas failed

Rating: 5/10 (18 May 2005)

Call me old-fashioned, but all the deadbeats who vote this movie a 10 without having seen it are really bugging me. That's sabotaging the ratings system. This movie is definitely not worth the current 8.1 rating.
I just returned from the opening, and I was very disappointed. I consider myself a great Star Wars fan (having rated Episode IV a 10), but apart from the spectacular visuals, I found Revenge of the Sith neither exciting nor entertaining. I knew where the story was going, and it just kept on going there and going there, with no really surprising twists and turns. The amazing production values frankly mean absolutely squat when there's no interesting story to back it all up.
Since one must rate a Star Wars movie according to how it relates to the other Star Wars movies, I am forced to let this final installment drag down the overall quality standard of these movies. I rate Episode III a 3, making it the second-worst of all the movies, out-done only by Episode I, which I rate a 2. My erstwhile 7 rating of Attack of the Clones will now be adjusted to 6 because of the disappointing finish which weakens the overall impression.
Episode III was dull, dull, dull, and will not be one of those movies I sit through again and again. And no one is more sorry about this than I am.