This film is getting overrated

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2005)

Let me cut right to the chase here. I loved the original trilogy in this series. Having said that this one here is the best of the latest installments, but do not let that fool you, because the first 2 here suck badly!! Lucas once again shows his ego is out of control by insisting on directing this film. He flat out is terrible director, which explains the common criticism of " The acting is wooden" Hayden Christenson is NOT A BAD ACTOR. This is the problem; You take young actors and put them in front of a blue screen, you need to DIRECT THEM and inspire them to imagine. Note the acting in the original star wars film episode 4;
Wooden to a certain degree, Now note The Empire Strikes Back, THE ACTING WAS TERRIFIC.. why? Did the actors get better? NO THE DIRECTOR DID. This film COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT, instead its emotional manipulation, which Lucas excels at. As AOTC, its all desert and NO MAIN COURSE.
Not only was Empire FAR AND AWAY the best star wars film, its was a great film period!! I suppose Lucas's Ego just could not allow him to get a top notch director this time out and thats sad, because again, this one with good direction, would have been the best out of all of them!! !!SPOILERS AHEAD!! The PG-13 rating here is only warranted in one scene, The scene I call The birth of "Darth The Charbrolied Stumpy Vader" That, of the new Sith apprentice, Darth Vader, in his arrogance attempting am arrogant fighting maneuver against Obi-Wan, than ends him up as a human stump; followed with him being burned to a crisp is frankly a bit gruesome and Young children will be horrified by it, so parents be cautioned here in this one scene.
The last 30 minutes of this film is great, and this film has by far the best action out of all of them.
I do find Anakin's turn to the dark side very in line with the prior first 3 movies explanation on how a person can be seduced by the dark side. Hayden is normally a good actor but without again, clear vision and inspiration from a competent director, Hayden appears to stink, but better than the last film he was in, but only by a hair.
Mace Windu's very dominant fight victory over The Emperor is only spoiled by Anakin having to step in and save the Emperor, but Yoda The Master of all masters can't defeat the Emperor? << THATS HORSE-DOO-DOO AS WELL.
Padme dying is horse-poop. I guess Leigha in ROTJ was speaking about her stepmother when she says "My mother died when i was very young?"
and In Empire, Obi-Wan uttering;
"That boy (Luke Skywalker) was our only hope".. I guess he was a senile Jedi Ghost and needed to be reminded by Yoda "No there is another" Overall I recommend this film ONLY FOR STAR WARS FANS who are craving something better then the first 2 films of the latest trilogy. This will is better.
But again beware of those telling you how a great a film this is IS Isn't ITS ENTERTAINING but nothing close to the original series.
REVISED RATING;
After another look at this film, I lowered down to a 5 and that is being nice. The negative comments are well deserved here and I believe now I overrated this film at 7, and might be overrating this film at 5 but there is some entertainment value here.
Peace