Maybe I expect too much?

Rating: 7/10 (19 May 2005)

I break it down like this...
Special effects 29 of a possible 33 Story- 22 of a possible 33 Acting- 16 of 33 Total- 67 or 6.7 out of 10
My explanation
Special effects were great, not perfect but great and if you're a fan of SW then this alone is enough to see the movie. Am I the only one that thinks the Droid army robots were pathetic and remind me of the characters from the Spy vs. Spy cartoons?
Story- For anyone that has seen the original series, we all knew what was going to happen. The movie felt like we went from explanation to another. That is to say; -How Anikin becomes Darth Vader -Why he has to wear his signature black suit -How all the Jedi are killed (which by the way was PATHETIC, but I can't expound on that because I don't want to spoil anything...) -And most importantly how and why Anikin turns to the Dark side. Once again I think that the combination of Hayden's poor acting and the rushed story left me with no connection to Anikin as to why he felt like he had to turn to the Dark Side. It was blatantly obvious that a pattern of "abuse" was trying to be established between Anikin and the Jedi council. In the end for Anikin to throw away all those years in what seemed a very, very short time was very unconvincing to me.
Acting- Everyone did an admirable job except Anikin and Padme. There parts looked at times like they were reading cold at an audition.
In my opinion it should have taken 6 hours to do what they attempted to do in a little more than 2.5 hours. In the end I gave it a 7 out of 10, but I admit there is a bonus bias factor as I have always liked the first 3 movies, and I hate to say it but the last three have failed to give me that epic feel.
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The Killing of almost all the Jedi took about what seemed to be 3 min. You would think the almighty and powerful Jedi would be just a *bit* harder to wipe out.
The scene between Ankin fighting Obi-One on the lava planet was crazy. They fight 2 feet off the lava, and not till Anikin has one of his legs lopped off does he suddenly become flammable.
The (sarcasm on) intense emotion shown when Anikin liberated Count Douku of his head was really (rolling eyes) convincing....