Better than the other two, but not good.

Rating: 3/10 (22 May 2005)

There are some good fight scenes, but in my opinion it was too weak as a movie to stand up. There were some glaring mistakes throughout, and the fight scenes, though good, were spoiled by the fact that you knew the outcome beforehand. To be honest, I nearly fell asleep during the swathes of political nonsense that runs throughout this film.
There were those annoying Jar Jar things in it too, though thankfully they had nothing to say. If they had, I would have probably got up and walked out of the cinema at that point. I guess Lucas has learned his lesson with those clowns.
The attempts to inject humour into it failed miserably as well. It was peppered with flippant throwaway lines which completely detracted from the seriousness of some of the situations.
In summary: Not as annoying as Episode one, not as dull and boring as Episode two, but still a long way from the later episodes.