Disappointment!!

Rating: 5/10 (19 May 2005)

As many others I was looking forward to the last episode. Having in mind the first two disasters (well, let's say, one and a half) I kind of reduced my expectations anyway, but was still hoping for a nice surprise. The surprise never came. Of course the movie is nice to watch, which it should be, taking into account the technical possibilities at hand. But the screenplay and acting are (again) not even close to satisfactory. One of the worst scenes is the one where Mace Windu tries to arrest the chancellor and Anakin becomes Lord Vader. Ridiculous! Or when Padmé tells him that she's pregnant: I've never heard somebody say "This is the happiest day in my life" with such an amount of boredom in their voice. To conclude: technically up-to date, story boring (I don't think oversimplification is necessary here) and partially nonsensical, no surprises whatsoever (if I had just seen the discussions on TV and not the movie, I would have been able to tell the story up to some minor details), acting pretty bad in some scenes.