Noooooooo!

Rating: 3/10 (27 July 2006)

"Nothing important happened today."
That's basically the feeling I had after watching ROTS (an appropriate acronym). For all the money thrown onto the screen, all the actors involved, all the expectations of a quarter of a century... none of it mattered. All we got was a blur of motion and flatly-delivered dialogue for two and a quarter hours. The film didn't garner a single emotional response from me. No excitement, no tension, no awe, no laughter, no sadness, not even a "That was cool" moment. Unless boredom counts as an emotion.
Anakin's turn to the Dark Side was truly ridiculous. It could have been shown over three films, but instead in Episode I we got "Yippee!", in Episode II we got Anakin killing the Sandpeople who murdered his mother and being immediately forgiven by his girlfriend, then in Episode III he sulks and pouts for a while before being turned to evil by a short speech. Palpatine is one hell of a convincing speaker!
One final question: has anyone totted up the total amount of time in the three prequel films devoted to shots of vehicles either dropping people off or taking them away? If the fancy spaceships, speeders and so on were replaced by mundane contemporary buses and taxis, people would be throwing things at the screen every time a lengthy shot was devoted to one pulling up to the kerb or driving off!