Good Enough (Some Spoilers)

Rating: 8/10 (23 May 2005)

Certainly this is not in the league of the last 2 entries, the newest edition of Star Wars at least had legible dialogue and plot. I also wouldn't go as far as to say that Lucas has redeemed himself. A monkey could have drawn the lines to putting this one together, it practically was already written by the previous entries. Now for the good: special Effects A+, Action Sequences B+ (i felt some of the duels where obviously lacking, Grevious came off as a boring character in his fight as did Dooku. Some one please send The Emperor to a fencing class, I'm not even sure he knew which end of the saber to grab. Also how long can we pause a light saber battle so that heroes can monologue, are we supposed to believe Mace cant feel whats going on with Anakin and then wait to strike the decisive blow ) Dialogue B- (way better then Eps 1 & 2, but not nearly the classic of Ep 4 & 5) also We should have taken time to written decent lines for Padme, 3PO and Bail Organa. Plot A- over all good but what else could it have been, although too many holes left open. Apparently Jedi can only feel evil intent when it suits Lucas's need to kill them. Also there are still some contradictions between the episodes.
Over all I gave it an 8 (and complaints because I expected a 10) I think the "Clone Wars" Eps 1-3 waited a lot of time on Anakin as a child, should have had it occur when he was 13 not 10 for several reasons: Raging hormones (maybe explain his fascination with Padme, a drivers license, a little closer to Lukes age, a little more believable that his training would be side tracked by other issues (like puberty). They also should have had Anakin join the Emperor in the 2nd film and become Vader at the beginning of the 3rd. Then we could see Anakin/Vader lead the assault against the Jedi with the full power of the Dark Side as his ally. If the Dark side was such an alluring thing and so easy to turn to , why didn't Anakin slip over completely in the 2nd movie when he assaulted the Sand People?
Oh Well Enough Said, May the Force be with us all and may Somme one else do episodes 7-9 than George the amnesiac.