A little bit Flat to be honest

Rating: 8/10 (19 May 2005)

The action was good, the fighting was good, it didn't seem quite a deliberate as the last one and therefore has a better flow to it. The way Anakin's choice was dealt with made me feel flat and I think that is the bit that's bothering me the most. It's a real shame all 6 were not made all together.
The balance is a difficult pay off. If Mr Lucas had made them all together in the 70's-80's, we would have had more character interaction with their environment and therefore more connection to them, but we would have had much smaller worlds. If he'd have made them all in the late 90's-00's, we'd have had bigger worlds but lots of green screening and that character disconnection. That's the key differences for me between the original trilogy (eps. IV, V and VI) and the new one(eps. I, II and III)
A balance that LOTR trilogy seems to have gotten a bit more right (prepares for being flamed). I think the main reason for this is the real objects used in the foreground, something tangible to for the characters to interact with.
However SW gets one up in that it all came from Lucas's mind, not someone else's book.
I would recommend you go and see for completeness and to have all those loose ends tied up even though you already know the answers. So you need to go and be happy watching it, because these trilogies are the last great ones we are going to see for some time I'm afraid:(