the force is definitely with this one

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2005)

the long wait is over, the expectation level had been climbing for the last month, reaching fever-pitch on Monday at the London Premiere in Leicester square and am i disappointed? No, not one bit. George has redeemed himself largely for Episode I and Jar jar Binks. I am finding it difficult to say anything bad about the film, small things like how easy Dooku was killed, how slow the jedi council cottoned onto Palpatine being evil, but really they are small details. Overall i really enjoyed it even knowing what was to come, none of the things i was expecting i was disappointed at. The best character was definitely senator Palpatine, he was just so deliciously nasty it was great. The quality of the cgi has much improved since Attack of the Clones which was easily outshone by LOR espiecially Gollum, but characters like Genereal Grievous were excellently done and it did not look like a cartoon anymore. Incredibly, i thought the acting was sound throughout as well, Hayden Christianson is much improved and they all looked much more at ease with the star wars thing. The ending was brilliant as well, Darth Vader as we all know him, the naming and hiding of the twins, many of the links into A new Hope were there, not over done, just right. I'm off to see it again soon.