I don't get it.

Rating: 1/10 (2 November 2005)

Why do we get that awesome camera "eye" in the first 5-7 minutes of the movie, then get stuck in that old Lucas-Kurosawa mode for the rest of the movie? The answer might be... Lucas doesn't care. All he has to do is put "Star Wars" up on the marquee and people will come running to buy tickets. It doesn't make any sense to show a story of what we already know will happen, and then not throw any technical innovations at us. The future of the movies is a camera "eye" that moves in and out of different points of view, swooping, dancing, making use of 3 dimensions. What we get here is just a static camera, except for the first minutes that I reference at the start of the article. These prequels should be considered a scandal as to the quality of the writing, acting, and yes, the visual effects, which for the most part, do not impress. Why should anyone be surprised when the man himself is on record as saying "Empire didn't need to be that good".