Completely betrays the classic trilogy

Rating: 4/10 (20 May 2005)

As with Episode 2, Revenge of the Sith completely betrays the classic Star Wars Trilogy. I'm one of the few who loved Return of the Jedi and didn't rate Empire as much (although it was still awesome in comparison to 2 and 3).
The thing that makes Star Wars movies for me is their simplicity. A simple, easy-to-follow, focused plot, sometime present in IV, V, VI and I, and completely missing from II and III. Revenge, as with Clones is unnecessarily complex, with the worst acting I have seen in a long time. It completely misses the emotional intensity of the plot and even contradicts events from the classic trilogy in two areas.
1. In Empire Kenobi states that "that boy is our last hope" and Yoda has to correct him, implying that at that stage he did not know Luke had a sister at all (this is minor really). 2. In Jedi, Leia says she remembers her real mother - quite hard really if she dies in child birth as she does at the end of Episode 3. Given all the loose ends they made the effort to tie up in other areas (Captain Antillies, 3P0's mind wipe etc) to miss these big ones implies that when writing the plot Lucas studied Episode IV in depth, but didn't look at V and VI at all - stupid guy!
But my main gripe remains that Star Wars movies are simple - rescue the princess for the death star and then go back and blow it up, run from the Empire into a trap, rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt before taking on the Emperor in the mother or all battles, or escape the trade federation with the help of a young Anakin Skywalker before returning to win back the oppressed planet - that just summarised the plots of 4, 5, 6 and 1 in a few lines. It would take me three times the space to sum up episodes 2 and 3. They miss the fundamental premise of why the original story was so good.
That, and the acting was terrible. The emotional power of the story seemed to be completely lost of the actors (all of whom are capable to performing excellently). The actors' tears (if any) seem false. Their despair is obviously faked and their pain is - well missing. Padme's suffering over Anakin's fall and her 'loosing the will to live' was faked, Kenobi's feelings of betrayal were wooden and totally unbelievable and even Palpatine missed the evil the defined VI.
Sorry to everyone who loved the film, but give me the classic trilogy any day.