the louse's view: Revenge Of The Sith

With the exception of the one decent joke of the entire prequel series (when Yoda arrives to confront the Chancellor) it's an almost irredeemably bad film. Story (in which tragedy is reduced to a post-pubescent hissy fit), dialogue (younglings?????), action (chase, chase, light sabres, chase), direction (as in lack of), CGI (as in way too much of), acting (as in wooden with the exception of Ian McDairmid). Here's the worst thing: the original movie was fun, evocative, good versus evil, cowboys and Indians in space and we were pleased it worked for the makers, who got rich but deserved their luck but all of the prequels have been tedious, derivative, pompous, manipulative and exploitative. ROTS is the zenith of the new paradigm: very, very bad.

as posted to Gaurdian Unlimted Film pages