Oh dear...

Rating: 5/10 (19 May 2005)

Now I'm a big fan of Phantom Menace and although I'm in the minority, I actually preferred it to the old movies. Attack of the Clones was good but not as memorable for me. I went to see Revenge of the Sith with a couple of friends just after midnight, the night it came out, so I was suitably hyped up for it. Unfortunately, myself and all of my friends (except one) was disappointed with it.
The acting on the whole was okay with Samuel L. Jackson playing Mace Windu really well, Yoda delivering some great one-liners, and Ewan McGregor really developing his take on Obi-Wan Kenobi. However, Haydyn Christennson cannot act. I know he may be pretty to look at, but he is as wooden as the chair I'm sitting on. Him and Natalie Portman are in love because the script tells them too, nothing about their love affair is convincing on screen. He can do an evil look pretty well though to be fair.
The script was just plain bad I'm afraid. It concentrates far too much on dialogue, everything explained in detail, every emotion spelt out for its audience. On the same day as going to see this I saw the latest episode of Doctor Who on BBC and the plain blandness and drabness of the script of Star Wars really looked bad against the emotional and clever dialogue in Doctor Who. As I said, Yoda has some great lines but they are one in a million.
I would go into more detail about what I thought but I can't without giving away any possible spoilers, so I'll just finish saying that I was disappointed with the way the movie played out on the whole and it will not stick too long in the memory.