Gross negligence in quality, a trend of George Lucas!

Rating: 5/10 (22 September 2014)

Six years gap between Episode I and III proved a great progress in digital technology as the CG special effects are incredibly improved over the video game worthy CG of the episode I although not perfect in any sense. For a movie bearing the title of Star Wars I expected ground breaking not just ordinary mainstream good special effects so in terms of special effects, although they are generally good but still a failure for such a movie however probably the biggest failure of the movie is weak acts. Scenario is nothing special, audience has the superior position and knows what would happen to Anakin, some stuff are answered like why the emperor got the disfigured face, why twins were separated, why Darth Vader got that look and some other stuff so the screenplay did not require much thinking. Generally the screenplay was descent but it grossly failed in character development. It failed to emotionally involve the audience with Anakin in his transformation from a Jedi to a dark lord probably because the acceleration of change was to slow so when it got to the point when Anakin killed master Windu, it looked very unnatural. Hayden Christensen's weak act complements to this defect in screenplay, he failed to deliver the intense emotion supposed to arise surrounding such action. After that he kneels before the emperor and without showing any emotion says "Yes my master"... The whole point of him slipping into the dark side was his emotional attachments but exactly when he should show some emotion, he acts like a zombie and after that point, he kills even younglings without showing any emotion. The whole thing looks very unnatural. Also Ewan McGregor's performance when he finds out about Anaking killing younglings were extremely flat and emotionless... "I can't believe what I see" he says that without showing a believable emotion when he should go insane! Another goof was that Obi Wan refers to the chancellor as EPEROR, I can't believe such thing could just slip past the multiple layers of scrip control. There is also another problem. In this movie we are dealing with millions of planets but the time required to travel between planets is ignored, most noticeable when the emperor arrives to the volcanic planet to save Anakin just after defeating Yoda. These things are more than goofs. Goofs are the defects which an ordinary audience can not detect easily but these defects are way to obvious giving the sense that Lucas was in hurry to finish the film and did not want to go the extra mile to change some stuff in screenplay so everything at least make sense and he could do that easily. Generally a good entertainment but gross negligence in quality, a well known trait of George Lucas!