Please people, open your eyes!

Rating: 5/10 (13 June 2005)

Growing up, I loved the original Star Wars Trilogy. The plots were sound, the characters were well-developed, and even though the basic ideas behind the movies were fantasy, the basic theme remained BELIEVABLE! Nevermind the fact that the first two movies were basically wasted with regards to the supposed main theme of these three movies: Anakin's descent to the dark side of the force. Can you imagine how awesome this would have been if this truly had been the focus of the first two movies? A slow, gradual pitfall resulting in one of the best villains ever seen in a movie? Instead, Anakin chooses the dark side in literally about 10 minutes in the final movie. It was almost as if Lucas thought to himself while writing "Whoops! Gotta throw this in here somewhere... ah, here we go..." The plot of this movie is awful. A legion of Jedi, including Yoda, who demonstrates in the original movies an ability to determine a person's intentions through the force, are wiped out by a massive conspiracy that NO ONE SEEMED TO REALIZE WAS COMING. Awful. Nevermind the fact that they were all wiped out in a matter of minutes in the movie... after all, from everything else we've learned about the Jedi in the past, they are obviously easily defeated, especially when ALL OF THEM are being targeted. Stupid.
How about the ending? One of the best villains of all time is created, and what does he do? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What the heck is that? Darth Vader shows no remorse! This trilogy of movies left me wondering about what could have been. It would be interesting if someone with actual writing talent somehow got permission to re-do this trilogy... it could have been so good. Simply giving this movie a 10 because it's Star Wars shows how blinded people have been by a lifetime obsession with the series. It's really sad.
Unfortunately you can't vote 0/10, so I give it a 1/10.