lousy light-sable fights (shame on you, Sam Jackson!)

Rating: 9/10 (30 May 2005)

ROTS finally delivers what most of us wanted, but what I still can't understand is why all light-sable fights in II and III are so terribly choreographed? Sam Jackson has three Jedi-knights accompany him to arrest the Sith Lord, and within 3 seconds all three of them are dead. And then Sam gives one of his poorest performances ever battling Palpatine. A classic example of miscasting a great actor. Even the battle of the heroes was overdone; again too much emphasis on the effects (the background) and not on the drama. It seems the classic battle between Kenobi and Darth Maul had a standard so high, it couldn't be repeated.
As for the prequels, George should have used 6 episodes to tell his story, instead of the cramped three we now have.Maybe he shouldn't have waited on the CGI-technology, because I believe that is what ruined these prequels. Jar-Jar, an animated Yoda, ET in the senate, the end battles in I and II; even the opening battle in III.
But it is over, it's finished.
Thank you George for ending it in style.