Pretty Good, the best of the Prequels

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2005)

I saw the midnight premier last night and am running on literally an hour of sleep right now. So on that note, if I don't make sense, just bear with me. Definitely the best and most epic installment of the new Star Wars film's. Lucas pushes his flashy vibrant style to the limit, pulling out all the stops on graphics, fight sequences, and gigantic dog fights.
I'll get my complaints out of the way first; Lord Grevious (the droid commander) is definitely the low point of this movie. Matthew Wood, the voice actor that plays this character, gives him a weird comical bad guy voice, like General Grevious is trying to crack a bad joke all the time. I was curious why he was so bad and then i looked up his history...he doesn't have one, never acted profesionally in his life. So how does one go about getting this role with no experience...he was the assistant sound guy. Not only that, but for some freaking reason Lucas gave him a chronic cough, making him even more comical so that he brings down every scene he's in. In fact, instead of making the droid army a powerful force of emotionless juggernauts, they take a backseat in the film and reside there as kooky little comic relief. Why? moving on, They gave R2D2 all these cool gadgets and things (in fact, he gets his own freakin fight scene)that he doesn't have in A New Hope. You'd think if R2D2 had of had those nifty rocket boosters in A New Hope he'd have just flown through the desert and never gotten captured by Jawa's and therefore Luke would have never gotten him and the entire galaxy would fall into eternal dark oblivion. Lucas! what were you thinking.
Next, Darth Vader is the "poster boy" and driving force of the Empires iron fist reign. He is an emotionless android led by the dark force of the emperor. He embodies everything that the Alliance hates. Realizing that, when Vader is finally created he ask's about his wife and when he hears she's dead he gives out a forlorn "Nooooooooooooooooo!" but in the James Earl Jones voice it's just silly. Several people laughed when this happened. Surely Lucas wasn't sitting in the editing room watching that going "oh, thats so sad", Anakin feels emotion, Darth Vader feels know emotion, cannot feel emotion, and seeing him being dramatic is just plain silly.
Now for the plus's Nostalgia, to the extreme. At one point Ewan McGregor puts on his cloak hood and goes walking into the darkness, and i seriously got goose bumps. More crazy Yoda action. Yoda is one bad man, Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) is one bad man, and Obi Wan (Ewan McGregor) is one bad man. The fighting is incredible. Definitely better than its predecessors. The Acting for the most part is very good, there's a few moments when i cringed a bit at a line or two, but other than that writing is good as well. It is sad that this is the last of the Star Wars, but it most certainly lives up to the name of Star Wars, and makes up mostly for Episode I. And while it is not a cinematic masterpiece, it is entertaining, just don't get caught up in the little "blips" i give it 8 out of 10