Lucas couldn't have been more off the mark.

Rating: 5/10 (30 March 2009)

To be fair, it's not hard to see why George Lucas decided to make this movie the way he did. With episode 1 and 2 ending up as failures for their crumby story lines why wouldn't he just give up and fill every scene up with endless amounts of action and special effects. I guess he figured doing that might finally get everyone off his back; too bad
Now to be harsh, this movie was not good. It was extremely rushed (especially around the end), poorly written and so very badly acted. This movie does not do justice to the star wars franchise; it sooner devours it. The whole movie is basically just a giant action/visual effects fiesta with no real ideas or story structure in the entire film.
Every one of those 'scenes that need to happen to blend into A New Hope' were all very carelessly thought out, unbelievably rushed and in a few ways utterly disturbing: - Anakin's turn to the dark side happened faster than a bolt of lightning; it was like 'oh no I've killed Samuel L. Jackson cause he wasn't going to give you a corrupt, but well deserved trail-too-I'm ready to leave all my past morals and ethics behind and join you to kill little children' - Hmmm, how to kill Padme? Caught in a cross fire during one of the many actions scenes during the movie? No. Hunted down by an assassin or bounty hunter? Never happen! Dying during child birth with advanced technology that by that time could probably cure cancer, surrounding her; not to mention Obi-Wan? Genius!! I think we've got a winner...yeah okay - Fight scene between Yoda and Darth Sydius was a load of bull. If Samuel L. Jackson can kick the cr@p out of Palpatine then there's no way Yoda could possibly fail. At the very least not as badly as he did. But no, Palpatine needed to go on living to exist in the next three movies but at the same time the movie needed an awesome Yoda fight scene to make it complete; so Yoda had to fail for that to happen. - Okay, Anakin losing against Obi-Wan; had to happen. Obi-Wan cutting off Anakin's legs cause he's evil and was out of control so he had no choice-absolutely...let him burn to death so he can inevitably get saved and live to appear in three more movies instead of doing the human thing and KILL HIM QUICKLY!! WTF? And Anakin's suppose to be portrayed as the psycho in the movie! -And what about the whole plan by Yoda to completely tie the two movies together in a neat little bow...concocted in about all of 30 seconds, and covering about 10 minutes of the entire film all upbut hey it's only the most important part of the movie, why give that a large amount of screen time when we can watch Ewan McGregor attempt to quiver in pain and agony as his worst fears come to life.
Oh and I know this is just me nit picking but it just annoyed me how unimaginative George Lucas actually was with this movie: - "Okay you are now my apprentice, I shall now call you (Dramatic pause) Darth VaderI don't know why I'm calling you it, but that's now your nameit sounds cool"
I hated this movie but I don't even give it the one star it so truly deserves because I like many others are subdued into some, if nor very mild submission over super, wicked, awesome special effects and kick ass fight scenes; which this film has in spades, if that's the only good thing I can say about it. Acting, Dialogue, Direction, Storyline all terrible. Visual effects, cinematography, make up, costume design, music all great. Its feast for the eyes and the earsuntil people start talking.
Oh and one more nit picking thing that annoyed me; the last scene when Obi-Wan gives the baby to the woman and she walks off and shows it to the husband of hergod, you couldn't have said thank you or something!?! "Thank you Obi-Wan for coming all this way to give me a FRICKEN BABY!!"! No?! Just look at him instead and walk off, that's polite. I'm sure if I were obi-wan I'd have a lot of confidence that I've just given the right people a baby!! After all they seemed so excited to have him!!