Let Downs

Rating: 9/10 (11 August 2006)

Star Wars episode three is an amazing film and its the kind of film you can watch over and over again. But, like in all good films, there are a couple of things that were a let down. The biggest one is the over use of CGI(computer generated images). Through the film there was barely a scene without green screen. Also, some of the character cgi is rubbish. For example, in the Dooku fight when Obi Wan gets thrown across the room it just looks like some low budget film trying to imitate someone flying. Also it has the most disappointing fight in the saga. This is the fight between Mace Windu and Emporer Palpatine. This fight had the potential to be one of the best fights ever but it was ruined by the exchange between the stunt double and the actor who played Palpatine. When the focus is on the actor he is really slow, but when it goes to a long shot and the stunt double it rapidly speeds up. Despite this it does still manage to uphold the quality of the star wars films and is by far not the worst one. Also the quality of acting greatly improved compared to that in attack of the clones.
posted by James Walker