great film

Rating: 8/10 (5 June 2005)

i found this film to be greatly enjoyable, the action is there from the start and comes thick and fast. The special effects are outstanding as we have come to expect from Lucas, however i cant shift the feeling that the scenes between Padme and Anakin lack the chemistry to make you care what happens to them and these scenes could have greatly been reduced and made a little more intense. All in all considering the standards set by episodes 4,5 & 6.... episode 3 gets us back to those same heights possibly as it is a lot darker film along the lines of Empire Strikes Back with Anakins reversal of fortunes and passage to the Dark side. To end with i would like to say i am disappointed for future generations who come to watch the films, as episode 3 basically gives you all the information that shocked us in episodes 5 & 6, Darth Vader being Lukes father and Leia his sister. This could have been easily avoided by only showing the birth of the children without Padme giving them their names, maybe a reference to the gender of the children would have been enough, but then that may just be me.