Powerful story if not the acting

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 2005)

I have been a star wars fan for a long time now, I was there with everybody else waiting in line to watch TPM and AOTC and was disappointed with both. Although I didn't voice my opinion to much knowing that George Lucas still had to deliver his most prized installment, that being the birth of a certain dark lord. This was always going to be the film the rest of the new batch of films would be judged on. I thought at first it was guna be lie the other two ( no heart ) but good reviews and word of mouth changed that.
Now the film, watching the beginning I was struck with a look back to ROTJ with the epic battle in space. The visuals did look amazing. The rest of the film followed the same perfectly. The acting was the always going to be the main vocal point for me, although at the beginning I was disappointed by what seemed to be yet more overacting. This thankfully changed as the true nature of the dark story came about. It seems everyone actually decided to act, Hayden was perfect as a young man struggling with himself, his fall, form grace to a dark lord is fantastic.
Obi Won has another big part and his fight with Anakin/Darh Vader is well done with the suitable ending. George Lucas should be praised for making the second half so dark, Anakin goes on a rampage as Darth Vader.
The senator Palpatine is v.good in the evil stakes.
I was disappointed with the v.end of the film, instead of finishing the film were Lucas should off with Darth Vader standing beside his new master looking out to space knowing they now have control over everything. Instead the film finishes on a up with the young Luke and Leia being given to their parents to be safe from the empire. This was wrong as this is meant to be the dark act before A New Hopes more upbeat act. We know that Luke and Leia have been born, this is given to us before. If the film had ended at the spot were Darth Vader and the empire were looking out to space side by side it would given us an idea of what Anakin had chosen and what his life was going to be like from now on.
Overall 8 out of 10, better then the first 2 ( TPM and AOTC ) but still The Empire Strikes Back is the king