weak acting, characters and story = disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (11 August 2005)

For those that have waited long for the prequels and especially for episode III, it is sad that the fans' patience is met with thrown-in, underdeveloped characters (a.k.a. general grievous, only slightly more personality or development than darth maul), distracting special effects (lava-surfing fight scene, i'm looking your way), and a laughably bad ending (vader's frakenstein-esquire rebirth). it is insulting to our intelligence that we are supposed to love this film because lucas throws in chewy, or boba/ jango fett in ep. II, because it feels more like marketing than storytelling. lucas made many regrettable choices for these prequels, and the series comes to a close very painfully.