I was disappointed

Rating: 4/10 (26 May 2005)

After seeing the movie I am astounded by the number of people rating this a "10". The last 5-10 minutes were good when everything was being wrapped up but before that, I was having a hard time maintaining interest. For the sake of drama all the high Jedi's weren't able to tell who the Sith lord was in the 1st 2 movies and that doesn't change here even though he is right in their laps. Beyond that I didn't have any problems with the plot as it fit into the logic that exists in the star wars universe. If this was the actually first movie I might have appreciated more but the ending is a foregone conclusion so there is really no tension about what the possible outcome is.
I didn't find the CGIs particularly well done and that was a disappointment. Quantity wise there are a lot but quality, it seemed they were a little too in love with CGIs. There is still a lot to be said of using real objects in some cases versus everything created 2 dimensionally. Yoda in particular seemed not very well done, he seemed very flat. I think they made a mistake in the clone war movie (the previous installment) when Count Dooko wasn't even breathing hard when he fought Yoda to a standstill and got away clean. I had just thought Yoda should be above the level of others but this movie re-enforces the fact that he is not.
I might watch it again when it comes on HBO but I won't pay to see it again.