Most Watchable Movie of Prequel Trigoly

Rating: 5/10 (7 March 2008)

.....and this is the highest praise I can think of about Episode 3. In fact it inherits most of the faults of previous two movies. ( but not all. For example no Jar Jar Binks except a few forgettable scenes and thank god no more his silly accent ) Weak scripts , terrible lines and bad acting from some of main casting goes on though. Besides there is too much CGI , enough to give you headache and although Computer Generated Image Tech advanced so far we can see its limits here. During certain times in movie you feel like you are watching an anime or something and this is disturbing. You can see forgery in these scenes obviously. More than that making some key characters as CGI just didn't work. They don't give you the edge of real actors or hand made creature designs. Give me puppets of Jim Henson Creature Shop over CGI anytime. If they did this all just we can see Yoda fight umm no I could do without that.
But CGI just one issue to complaint. I can hold myself against bad acting or Hayden Christiansen's inability of acting only so far. Seriously what the hell casting director or Lucas thinking when they give a vital no in fact a key role as Anakin Skywalker to Hayden Christiansen ? Did they think we shall all fall in love with him because he is cute ? MOST OF STAR WARS FANS ARE MALE !!! I mean terrible lines written for him also didn't help ("yo underestimate my power !" Scriptwriter should be fired really ) but Hayden also has a freakingly annoying way to say them. Then there General Grivous. Leader of stupid droid army (making funny droids were a big mistake , every time they did something funny like saying "Uh-Oh" or run , I was jumping on my seat. Elegant but blunt humor of 3PO and R2-D2 was no more. A pity..) His Boris Karloff accent made my eyes roll. But not all acting was bad. Ian McDiarmid really shined in this episode in spite of his share of silly stupid lines ( "No you die ! " "pooweeeer , unlimited poweeeeeer !") This time he really gave Palpatine character an edge and complexity with his acting skills. Ewan McGregor was also not bad although there was a sense of reluctance from him during some scenes. Like he had enough playing against CGI characters with terrible dialogue. Last of all Natalie Portman is a very gifted actress ( anyone disagrees go and watch "Leon" or "V for Vendetta") but this is when she is given proper material to work with. Here she was quite boring again just like in two other Star Wars prequels due to her terrible lines and dialogue again....
One thing I liked most is ties that connected to Original Trigology like how Empire was formed , why , how Darth Vader was born etc...Again it had plot holes but...they should be just overlooked if you want to enjoy the movie. Another thing I liked was musical scores. Their synchronizations with climatic or dramatic moments were quite good and moving (like during Jedi slaughter) Still give me Original Trigogy over this anytime...