Definitely one of Lucas best 18 movies

Rating: 1/10 (8 August 2007)

**Warning some spoilers ahead**
As pointed out by a lot of others this movie is really bad, i really don't know why it has a 7.9 as a score but my bashing score of 1 is mainly to even the total score a bit (otherwise it had gotten a 4 at most).
That said it really is a bad movie for the following reasons:
1. Killing of a charismatic interesting villain (Dooku), just to replace him with an BS windmill light saber CG robot. Not only is Christopher Lee a more interesting actor (in voice and appearance) than Matthew Wood (a sound editor i guess), also could count dooku have played a nice part in the transition towards the dark side (as he tried with Obi-wan in episode 2).
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Grevious really hollows out the believability of the Jedi arts/training with his windmill act (and it isn't really that funny either)
2. As mentioned the transition towards the dark side isn't that great, i expected more a Micheal corleone transformation were anakim was compelled to break the code/resort to violence (or something like that). And the killing of the little ones by the would-be father and loving husband is completely unbelievable (even for tony Montana killing children was out of the question)
3. The battle on Kashyyk was utter crap and completely unnecessary: i thought the battles in episode 1 & 2 were quite dodgy but they had at least some link to the storyline. Here we watch wookies who we never seen before (ohww yeah of course chewbacca who we'll see in the next episode what a coincidence) en droids which we haven't seen before fighting on a planet which we have never seen before for no real obvious purpose (why hold the beach). If we compare this with the battle for Hoth were there was something at stake and the principle actors involved this battle scene just utterly fails.
4. The special effect are hailed as marvelous and great, but i must say there really not that great at all (or realistic for that matter). Were in recent movies like war of the worlds or king Kong we really get a feeling of presence and an nice blend between real photography (sets/miniatures) en CGI with Star Wars too often shots and backgrounds (sets) feel fake. Lucas could have better gotten of his fat ass in his skywalker ranch and really shot some things on location or on real sets than to shoot only on blue screen and pass everything to ILM.
5. Padme's death: that's just the most stupid and unnecessary (storywise) death scene i have even seen. I was hoping they would use padme's death to give anakim the last step towards the dark side. This is chance is utterly wasted makes the whole "palpatine: i can save her crap" more useless than ever
6. Anakim is angry because he doesn't get the promotion, well too bad why didn't they expel him form the Jedi order (for his killings or his marriage with padme, more than a sound reason). It would definitely make it more believable why he would hate (and kill) the Jedi's
7. The cameo of Dennis Muren as the scorched emperor isn't that great either, although with working on all six movies he did deserve his screen time though.
Altogether i cant believe Lucas failed this miserably with creating a decent "transformation towards the dark side" story (okee a Michael corleone transformation would be a little too high perhaps) but anakims transformations isn't logical at all (let alone his sudden hate towards the Jedi's and the padawan's) Why didn't anyone in the production team warn him that the story really wasn't that great?