Good - But could have been a lot better

Rating: 7/10 (15 August 2005)

OK - so any self-respecting Star Wars fan will concede that Ep I & II were not exactly what we would have hoped for in terms of both acting, and story lines. Yep - all the nice CGI flashes and clever "show-off" material from the guys at ILM really impressed me. But Star Wars is more than visual entertainment....
Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (here be spoilers) Promised so so so much, yet delivered so little.
The whole "Anakin turning bad" part of the film was way too short. I understand that there was a limited amount of time to get this information across, but - George - this is the MOST IMPORTANT part of the whole 6 films. The "making of" Darth Vader.
I was truly under-awed by both Christopher Lee's and Hayden Christensen's performances. Even poor poor Natalie Portman was struggling not to vomit while delivering her lines.
The only saving grace about this movie was the great actor that is Iain McDiarmid - who has been 100% convincing as Palpatine/Sidious.
He saved this film from being as bad as the first 2 of the prequel films.
We all knew where the story was going to go - we just didn't know how it got there. And if we had have known how it had got there, we would have told it to take a much different route.
So surmising - ROTS, probably the most important of the 6 films (story-wise), but not the greatest of the 6 - and it so so so could have been, given some more thought.