Competent but not brilliant

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2005)

I think that it is far to say that most of us knew what was going to happen and the movie did go and fill in the gaps between the Clone Wars and absolute dominion of the Emperor. What the movie failed to deliver on was what we all went to see it for - the subversion of Anakin Skywalker to the Dark side. OK it did show how he ended up in the Darth Vader suit but not why he got there in the first place. The reason given, although it did have something, did not ring true with me. I guess, the only thing that would have worked well would have been something akin to the subversion of Dr Yueh and Thifur Hawat in Frank Herbert's Dune. We as the audience must be made to believe that the sweet boy flying the pod car could become Darth Vader. This movie did not do that.
Otherwise the scenes were good and the action was good. See it but don't expect to be blown away in the way the 70s - 80s movies blew you away.