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Rating: 7/10 (14 May 2013)

I actually hold it as no secret that I think Episode III is better than Episode IV. If you have a problem with this, stop reading this review and leave it alone.
The other two prequels were horrible. The Phantom Menace could've actually been a decent movie if not for Jar-Jar, Jake Lloyd, the politics of the thing and that bloody pod racing. Attack Of The Clones was simply awful. Entirely awful. Then you have this, the best of the prequels.
Firstly this film is not any better in terms of acting. Christensen is still as wooden as ever and surprisingly in this one Ian McDiarmid too falls victim to the "bad actor" category as does Natalie Portman (she was great in Black Swan...what happened?) The only real highlight is Ewan McGregor and even then I can't name any others off memory.
The plot is more or less Anakin befriends the Chancellor and after having a vision of Padme dying during childbirth, becomes drawn to the Dark Side after hearing a Sith legend of being able to save people from death.
Okay, no, even if you corrected the acting, this film is not perfect. Things like Anakin falling for the Dark Side too easy, Darth Vader screaming "NO!!!!" but unlike the predecessors (Episodes 1 & 2 alone) this one has few faults...at least in comparison.
I enjoyed the character development of Obi-Wan Kenobi. His struggle against Darth Vader and associating that with Anakin and his inability to kill him because of that is good enough character development for a film like this...also the light saber fight with Vader and Obi-Wan is pretty cool too.
I also love the Execute Order 66 montage. I admit that I absolutely love that part. Given that the sequence is literally mass genocide of the Jedi you can imagine how that was meant to entertain. It was, is, powerful for what it is.
This is a film that is nothing more than entertainment and if you aren't entertained by that Space battle at the beginning you probably won't like this film. The good thing about that is that the battle is dead at the beginning and only takes place within the first 6 minutes so if you hate it, you'll know just by 6 minutes of a 134 minute film. 128 minutes of your life...saved.
Overall this might not be a masterpiece. It might not be as "influential" or as groundbreaking as the original trilogy but as far as a mindless watch goes, you could certainly go by worse.