Star Wars saga ends with a loser

Rating: Null/10 (5 June 2005)

Worse than the previous two films.
Contains SPOILERS.
The only thing Mr. Lucas can do well is visual special effects. The movie looks great. The effects look realistic. Except for the last sequence, the fight in the lava caves, which looks like rear screen projection. The movie starts off with a bang with an exciting fight sequence. It's all downhill from there. Very long extremely dull scenes. Humorless. Mr. Lucas hasn't gotten any better with dialog or actors. Annoying is cutting in the middle of a fight scene; all the momentum is lost. The transformation of Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader is completely unconvincing. The sequences between Anakin and Natalie Portman (Padmé) are embarrassing. Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi) is good as is Ian McDiarmid (Supreme Chancellor Palpatine) Yoda got applause. R2, Chewbacca, C3P0 have small appearances. Light saber fights are same old. Other reviewers have pointed out that if you rearrange SITH (S**T) there you have it. It's not that bad. But it's not as good as the first three.