Not bad, but not good either.

Rating: 6/10 (23 May 2005)

This wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't a very good one either. With the criticism "Star Wars - Attack of the Clones" endured, I thought Lucas and his team would try not to repeat the same mistakes in this one, but that, unfortunately, wasn't the case.
Poor acting from most of the crew is what disturbed me more than the rest. Most importantly Haydn Christensen's performance, which isn't quite as bad as in "Star Wars - Attack of the Clones" but failed to convince me. Natalie Portman's and Ewan McGregor's weren't all that satisfying either. It seemed as if they were simply going through the motion, not even paying attention to their credibility.
Visual effects also suffered greatly. Locations weren't believable and most of the computer-generated characters such as Grievous were total failures. Only Yoda was better than in the previous two episodes, though his freestyle-air-acrobatic stunts were once again overdone.
The lame dialog didn't help the movie either, nor did the "jokes" or all of the comic relief. This was especially obvious at the very beginning of the movie during which we see R2D2 handle battle droids, while Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are "having fun" killing.
The costumes, as always, are interesting for the most part, but the make-up wasn't perfect. Emperor Palpatine's face after his fight with Mace Windu looked more like glossed wax or a very old chewing-gum than anything else.
Also, it seems Lucas tried to compensate the movie's inconsistency by packing it with violent sequences. True, the context is desperate, but aren't Jedi keepers of the peace ? But with all it's flaws, "Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith" manages to link the two trilogies with only a few incoherent facts.