The closest thing to 2.5 hours of special effects (nothing else)

Rating: 4/10 (3 June 2005)

I have only seen a few movies where I find my self thinking "How much time 'till this is over?!?" Revenge of the Sith is one of them. Itt gave me the impression that Lucas wanted to get STAR WARS over with I have always been satisfied with the STAR WARS movies, especially the original ones. Episode 1 was OK too but not as god as the first 3. It seemed that Lucas decided to just forget the story when he got his hands on the digital animation software. the story line is so cut -and-paste it is amazing that the movie was 2.5 hours long. it could be summed up it like 2 sentences: The Sith Lord turns Anakin to the dark side by promising power to save Padme. Anakin turns into Darth Vader, Padme dumps him and dies during childbirth. I expected Revenge of the Sith to have a more unpredictable explanation for Anakin's turn to the dark side but in the end i wasn't the least bit surprised at all. Palpatine is the Sith lord in disguise, and when Anakin realizes this i was like "duh!" The only way Palpatine could have made is true identity more obvious would be if he walked around ,wearing a sign that said "I AM THE SITH LORD". As if the story wasn't bad enough, the acting was....not very good, it's like the actors didn't read the scripts all the way through be for the final shooting. Hayden Christensen is not a very good Jedi knight, he comes off more has a stressed out teenager whose problems could be solved with a little therapy. Natalie Portman is the same way, more like a young helpless girl like the fact that she was once a queen had no influence on her at all. This actually surprised me i saw Shatered Glass and Hayen Christonson was very good in it (mabey it's because he was supposed to be a stressed-out teenager) This wasn't the kind of performance i expected from him. But the effects were very good and the fight scenes between Yoda & the Sith Lord and Vader & Obi-Wan were exiting (Yoda is one of the main reasons i like STAR WARS) I would suggest that u rent it or see it at the dollar theater when u r bored one day