Teenage angst

Rating: 5/10 (31 May 2005)

This movie has no flow.
It is an endless succession of "oh I need to pick up that lose end and make up an explanation" scenes with not enough time to make it a believable story. Why does the Death Star get built? Why did the building of the Death Star start before Darth Vader even existed? Where is the story? Why do they need 18 years to complete the first Death Star, but only three for the second? Why is Obi Wan suddenly an old git on EP-IV? He should only be about 50 according to the timeline. And it goes on - wherever you look, the timeline seems to be messed up.
But I'll leave the nitpicking about the various story loopholes to someone else, just why Anakin would turn to the dark side because of a dream of Padme dying in a world where even CLONING is easily available is beyond me.
Anakin is still a whiny brat who thinks the world is out to get him. And he really wants to be a firefight.. err, jedi master, but the grown-ups wont let him. Complete teenage angst movie. Very emo.
The dialogue and wooden acting was partly on par with Power Rangers or the A-Team or any other early evening TV-series for kids.
The digital effects are great. Excellent. Impressive.
Aside from the lava which is for a very long time not hot enough to even singe a brow but suddenly hot enough to burn Anakin alive. Second most unbelievable lava scene directly after Frodo at Mount Doom. The scene is just not believable - they whole act is as if it would be just water.