A Beautiful Effort crippled by Dialogue

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2005)

Sooner or later, a man has to know his limitations. With Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas has everything going for him. The best story in the whole saga happens in Episode III. All kinks have been worked out in how he goes about making his movie digitally. He has but to think of it and his artists render it beautifully on a 40 foot screen. So it really hard to watch and digest this movie(, and it was one hard pill to swallow for me and I like Episode I and II,) and come to the realization that the only true failing of this film is the dialogue that George Lucas wrote. The dialogue is not only bad, its downright comical at times. I've already heard some bad things about the performances, especially Hayden Christianson's and I'm here to say you can't blame Hayden. I feel he played the part right but he was given horrid line after horrid line. Lucas owes this kid an apology. Its a rough 2hr21min. folks. I went to a midnight showing of this movie and while the movie ends with a downer I had expected as with Episode I and II to hear applause at the end credits. I personally mustered a few but like most in the theater I honestly didn't know how to react to this movie. I never knew a movie could be crippled by dialogue the way this movie was. Only the U.K. born actors gave performances that weren't marred by it. ROTS had all the makings of the greatest chapter in the Star Wars saga. I can't whole heartedly recommend this film but I do love it with its one great flaw.