The Acting, Oh My

Rating: 6/10 (20 May 2005)

Plot and eye-candy aside, on the acting: Thankfully, McDiarmid and McGregor delivered solid performances and seemed to fully embrace the film's dark message. McDiarmid's portrayal as an innate evil was not overdone, but modestly tempered with a side of flare you'd expect an evil dictator. While McGregor's character seemed to carry the inner struggle likely found in a person in his shoes.
If not for those two this movie would have left a deep seated pain in everyone's heart. By far Natalie Portman is no Carrie Fisher, and Hayden Christensen is a Mark Hamill.
The come and go of secondary characters didn't have any type of lasting impact, and only offered up dry unpassionate dialog. Everyones being slaughtered around you, a new evil power is taking over, come on????
Any other thoughts?