Too much cheese, wood and corn

Rating: 3/10 (20 May 2005)

It's good that this wasn't the only prequel to come out, for all the expectation levels - people would have committed suicide or something...
Nevertheless, this film actually has quite a good story for a prequel star wars movie, but it's ruined by the things I mentioned in the caption.
Cheese: The first two prequels should've been like a padawan who eventually learns from mistakes and becomes a master in the third, but oh no, we are still sailing the seas of cheese. Countless amount of "baroque" style fight scenes (not the lightsaber ones, which were OK), where you can't get a grip on anything that's going on because of the excess amount of depthless, soulless CGI; fireworks is the right metaphor, but not in the nice sense. Gadgets that are being used, the robots, the machines, the scenarios... just plain synthetic with no feeling of real or immersion. I would prefer real sets and real characters - however clunky they may be - over CGI-cheese, every single time.
Wood: Acting is done in wooden fashion, the dialogue, as well as being mostly wooden, is rushed and at times pointless or illogical (in the way it conveys human emotions or actions). Can't help but feel sorry for both the viewers and the actors. No mercy can be shown for people who casted Hayden as Anakin. It must be one of the worst casting decisions in the history of science fiction cinema. How come, then, the original trilogy had such a successful casting?
Corn: There's much corn in this movie, but the corniest moment has been reserved for the ending, which is absolutely abhorring when you think of it - the moment everyone waits for, that which defines the whole spirit of the plot and the movie, and it is done how it is done... you have to see it for yourself.
All in all, ROTS lacks the emotion, characters, depth, realness and originality of the first trilogy. Which is kind of sad, since this one had real potential as a story, as a movie. Episodes I and II were a giant CGI-slugfest with something called script as an excuse for showboating. There are moments in this film when the showboating-mode is on full throttle, but they are fewer than in the previous prequels. But you just can't immerse yourself in this movie! You end up as a meta-viewer, unhappily conscious about how the film was made and how it should've been made instead of just purely enjoying it.
Best moment: Aayla Secura on the screen Worst moment: Tough competition to pick a winner from...
Conclusion: Synthetic-feel movie with little to cheer about, unfortunately.