So long and thanks for all the Sith

Rating: 9/10 (18 May 2005)

Pleany to love and plenty to hate, plenty to annoy the hell out of you. So hard to be objective when scoring Star Wars out of ten so maybe 9 is wrong I just couldn't decide. Damm it where do I start. I expected nothing from this movie, I hated ATOC with a vengeance and thought this would be more of the same but still was dying to see it and surprise surprise, its pretty good, pretty damm amazing in parts. It starts off pants, terrible, uncomfortable dialogue (Surprisingly Ewan more than Hayden Christianson, oh the shame) and them ridiculous little droids eating away at Obi Wan's ship, a few awful Anakin and Padme scenes and then Bang a whole other movie appears from nowhere, from the moment Mace Windu faces Siduis its great, give or take the occasional dodgy line and dodgy effect (what the hell was that thing Obi Wan was riding about on). I was suitably moved by Obi Wan's emotion when defeating Anakin, it was great to see Chewie and most importantly Hayden Christianson was OK. Also don't question too closely the continuity to the original trilogy, I mean in Empire, Obi Wan is surprised to learn that "There is another" but here he see's with his own eyes and knows exactly who Leia is and in Jedi Liea says she remembers her mother, yeah right, how many people remember the first 30 seconds of their life. I suppose that doesn't really matter too much. so yeah its really good for the last hour or so, cool moody music for the Jedi slaying's adds atmosphere, Yoda is very good, Vader looks beautiful(tho could have done without his Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo) and Tatooine's 2 suns never looked better, anyway to summarise:- Mostly sunny outlook with plenty of cloudy patches, wear a T-Shirt but take an umbrella just in case.