Addictive, but still clumsy (Some spoilers)

Rating: 9/10 (20 May 2005)

Lots to be said about the movie. Better or worse than the previous, none can really say, unless you watch it a couple of times. As previous people here, on IMDb, said, Welcome Back, Mr. Lucas! Glad to see the starships, battlecruisers, light sabers, the unique sound of the engines and so on. However, I want to criticize the forced manner they made the script about Anakin's conversion. Not that we didn't expect, but Palpatine shows himself suddenly, and just asks: Join the Dark Side! I think it was obviously because the script writers had to overcome the lack of complexity with another lack of complexity. I was uneasy to see some events that have a pace and that others have a different one. I don't know, I am not a writer, but it felt a bit childish, the same error as the Attack of the Clones movie, which made me think I was watching a kid playing computer games rather than watching a SW movie. And then, the same Anakin does things (I repeat, not that we didn't expected to) in such a hurry. Now he is the same restless padawan, then, suddenly, the vengeful and naïve frustrated padawan and the, just like that, Darth Vader himself. The authors wanted to link the stories in such a way that they forced the SW logic, at least the one I expected. Or it is the first time I watched it. I don't know. Still a bit too "juvenile", even for an old fan (the movies of my childhood were "A new Hope" and "Empires strikes back"). But for the sake of all what SW means, it is a wonderful movie. 9 of 10