A film too far

Rating: 1/10 (23 June 2005)

To make a film straddling the prequels and the "real" Star Wars trilogy would tax even a great film-maker....Mr Lucas is not that film-maker.
To portray the fall of a good man into darkness needs a good actor...Mr Christensen is not that actor.
The first 60-80 minutes are overwhelmingly boring with only a few pockets of yet more light sabre fights but there is a lack of edge because you already know which main characters survive to the original Star Wars.
Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) has a very fleeting role here and about the best idea is to have Jar Jar Binks silent!
No the film only picks up with the Chancellor turning on the Jedi and has one great (overlong) sequence at the lava falls