Anakin to Darth is unconvincing

Rating: 6/10 (5 June 2005)

While not as down on this movie as some posters, it does not live up to the hope and expectations for the final installment of a great movie series.
I don't mind the focus on techno-movie-wizardry: Coruscant is still a great city-planet (that Lucas borrowed from Asimov's Trantor). I can even accept the sound affects for a battle that takes place in space (whizzing space craft?). And the R2-D2 moves are OK since they continue to appeal to the child audience that Lucas has been entertaining now for decades.
However, the lack of logic of the Jedi - masters, apprentices, younglings, all - particularly exacerbated by Anakin's light/dark side switch, just lost me. "I did a bad thing, OK, I'd better become COMPLETELY bad." just doesn't work for me.
Sure, the Jedi were believably sucked in to believing that the Clone Army would back them up all the time - on the other hand, the very nature of a Clone army is that it is made up of humans, who will sometimes follow orders, sometimes not. Clones are NOT just "androids made of skin and bone", they are people.
So, I liked the film, but would not bother to see it again at the cinema. Whereas, Episodes IV, V and VI were all films that you could go to again and again (ok, less so with VI).
I also disliked the fact that the ENTIRE history of the "Galactic Empire" is now only 30-odd years. In the earlier-made films, the impression is that the Empire was an Empire of millenia, with the Clone Wars being a distant, historical-almost-mythical series of events. But now we know that the Clones ARE the Storm Troopers, and that the Galactic Emperor is the one-and-only Emperor and is a johnny-come-lately.