Well, at least its over with.

Rating: 1/10 (6 June 2005)

As a fan of the original Trilogy, I suffered through Episode 1 and Episode 2. Episode 1 remains the favorite of the three, only because its the only one of the three that doesn't seem like an over long special effect. At least it seemed to be a Star Wars film, even if it was a bad one.
But lets get right to Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. After this film was given the PG 13 rating, George Lucas told parents not to bring their kids. I thought immediately "Nice marketing idea, George!" because I knew it would be relatively harmless, and it was.
At least in the case of violence. This movie does damage, though, to anyone who watches it. We start out with a thirty minute action seen that probably had Christopher Lee wondering why he always dies too early in trilogies. Count Dooku is taken out too quickly in the film, during a drawn out action scene where R2 manages to take out a few battle droids, proving once again that George Lucas should stay about fifty feet from Humor at all times.
So we then find out that Anakin's marriage to Padme was a secret. But, she's pregnant, and if you were watching the same trilogy I was, you'd realize that she's hardly around any other man (with the exception of Jar Jar Binks, which opens up too many possibilities that I don't even want to get into). So it can't be the best kept secret in the galaxy. However, Obi wan remains clueless for quite some time. Any good director would make sure that somebody as intelligent as Obi Wan had suspicions all along.
And, of course, Anakin's descent into the Dark Side. Way to manipulate him, Emperor. All Palpatine's dialog was direct, and very well acted. Unfortunately, Hayden Christenson is not an actor, and he drags down what should be the best scenes in the movie. Even still, somehow I doubt that you can go from being angry at yourself for killing a Jedi master to heartlessly Massacring other Jedi. It just doesn't work like that, especially if we are to believe that Anakin is doing this for Padme and her children.
Yoda once again has an action scene, this time fighting the Emperor. Yes, the wise Jedi Master gives us a variety of tough guy lines, to the point where we expect him to say something like "My way or the Highway, it is." Senator Bail Organa was never cool enough. He was the best character in the movie and they did not deliver enough for us to know his character as much as desired. Of course, we never had enough to like Mace Windu so therefore his death in the film is absolutely meaningless.
Through the series though, the only characters we get to know are Padme and Anakin, one portrayed by a brilliant actress, and one portrayed by somebody Lucas might as well have found at a bus stop.