Same old same old

Rating: 4/10 (5 June 2005)

Here we are, most people seeing this movie with the main purpose of seeing how Anikin turns over to the dark side.
Being 'Star Wars', naturally it has to get an extra star. The overall movie was quite unsatisfying with it very unbalanced in how much 'love' there was, how much fighting there was, and the very much so over-used 'humour'. The first half hour makes you laugh a bit with pretty much only the droids that seem to take the spotlight... but getting towards the end of that half hour you realise the humour continues through the entire movie, making you want to tear down the screen and shout out 'make a real movie!' But too much 'humour' i guess isn't something you can really complain about, even though for me it got extremely boring. Of course, the same with all the other Star Wars movies, this isn't a movie you should watch if you don't like the 'far fetched, so far impossible' type of stuff. From sound in space, droids seemingly flying backwards off space ships as if to say that there is air friction in space... (then of course you have your space travel and communications) The fighting scenes were incredibly dull. Even compared to Attack of the clones. Once you see a lightsaber scene in this movie you have seen them all... over and over.
I give this a 4 because for some reason i was at least a bit satisfied when i walked out of the cinema. There aren't many movies where you get such a sense of betrayal in this movie. It has (as it did with me) actually make you quite angry at what happens throughout the story of how the jedi are extinct, and then you have the decent into the dark side for Anikin. It could have been done better. The only scene where i felt a bit of 'power of hate' was that already infamous scene in the movie. Other than that he almost acts exactly the same as he does in the first two movies.
The acting throughout was often very bad. Or rather, bad compared to the actors other acts that we have seen. However there are also a few scenes that make up.
I think the movie would work very well for the hearing impaired... a VERY good soundtrack throughout the movie!