Some of the best star wars!

Rating: 8/10 (31 May 2005)

Apart from the bad acting from Hayden Christensen and the fair performance from Portman the movie is a fantastic visual experience. It's a great story and it combines the two decades of Star Wars very well. The fighting scenes are incredible and John Williams has really made a fantastic score with gigantic potions of drama and sadness. It's bombastic! It's two bad that the love scenes between Hayden and Natalie still are far from perfect.. They have stiff way about them, but I think Portman has become much better throughout these movies. Hayden has also become better since episode 2 but still he is not convincing.
The action scenes are a joy to watch! They are extremely well directed that you feel like you are seeing an opera of violence and sci-fi. This is as I sad very much because of John Williams but the directing is also incredible here. Ewan Mcgregor also deserves a lot of credit for his work with Obi-wan. He has really found a way to make him seem deep and interesting, which he really failed to do in episode 1. Ian Mcdermid is the evil bastard darth sidious and he is just as evil as one could expect.
The movie comes to a point where the dilemma within Anakin unfolds and they are not leveled with the rest of the movie but yet they are necessary for the movie to work.
here comes a little spoiler...
You can look forward to the ending because a greater swords fight has never been filmed! It is such an incredible joy to watch. If it hadn't been for the less good scenes with Padme and Anakin i would consider this to be nothing but a masterpiece!