Like millions screaming in pain

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2005)

Sometimes I wonder if I misunderstood the common rules of the free market. Shouldn't one try to optimize a product before putting it up for sale to gain maximum customer satisfaction and profit? Mr. Lucas once again makes me wonder. How can the director and inventor of maybe the most intriguing science fiction universe in film history deliver for the third time a piece that can hardly be called a movie? Maybe because it wasn't Lucas that made the former episodes what they were, but his team. Now, 25 years later, maybe nobody at Lucasfilms is left, to give in some creative impulses worth being mentioned. Instead, a bunch of YES-men spent their time producing a film based on a script and conceptional layout, that a skilled writer could have done in his lunch break including most of the important dialogues we were punished to witness in ROTS. I stopped counting the logical errors - some of them so severe, that Mr.Lucas and his team might have done good, asking some fans who know their movies a lot better than themselves. But the brutal way in which so many of the ingredients that made the Star Wars saga what it is today, where degraded and mutilated, leaves me speechless.