A word of caution for those who do not wish to know anything about this film, turn back now.
I finally saw this movie after school yesterday, and I really don't know what to say. I'd first like to say that I am a big Star Wars fan, I loved the originals and grew up playing games from X-Wing, Tie Fighter and Rogue Squadron, among many others. Episodes 1 and 2 had been fairly dissappointing, they weren't great movies, they might even have been good moviesm but certainly not bad movies. After seeing several trailers and waiting in anticipation, I thought George had made a turn around and actually made a good movie to this otherwise mediocre trilogy. Damn was I wrong. Not only was this movie bad, but it was, for lack of a better word, retarded. On top of abbismal acting, none of the characters had any depth to them, and didn't behave anything like their formal selves, especially the droids, who had voice changes and were given "personalities". Oh yeah, R2-D2 kills 2 SBDs, at once, wtf? The story had some potential, Anakins reasons for turning to the darkside are legitimate but the horrible execution of the story ruins it. On top of that was rushed story, everything happened too fast. The acting, as I said before was horrible, the biggest offenders being Anakin, Palpatine and, surprisingly and to my horror, YODA! Hayden Christenson as Anakin started the movie with quite a good job of acting and line delivery, but it went downhill, very, very fast and near the end he sounded like a complete idiot, with lines like "Love can't save you Padme but my new powers will" or something along those line. Yoda, says everything in his "backwards talk", I mean everything and some of his phrases sound utterly retarded.Ian McDarmound as Palpatine had flucuation is his voice between words and wasn't even subtle at twisting Anakin to the dark side, he may as well have had a sign on his chest reading "I am a Sith Lord". Which brings me to another point, there are no sith! I was expecting some sort of group of lightsaber weilding sith, nope, not one, except Dooku, who loses both hands before being decapitated, the Jedi are slaughtered by the Clone Troopers, not Sith. Every 'important' character had at least one hand cut off, if they died, I think some friends and I counted about 6 or 7 de-handings throughout the movie. Kashyyyk was another dissapointment, there was no big battle, there were 3 explosions, a wookie and 2 decapitations. The most unfortunate part of the movie is however, that fact that we, the viewer gain nothing from it. Sure you've seen the original trilogy and no what happens, but you should learn something new after watching the backstory, and know the fact that Darth Vader is played by a whining prick who can't act doesn't count. The only really cool part about this movie, aside from the lightsaber battles, which were well done, was General Greivous, but he dies and the movie quickly goes to hell after that.
I am really dissapointed in this movie, and it is very unfortunate that this trilogy had to end this way.
MicroPsycho
