INITIAL GUT REACTION: Dark... maybe too dark considering how many kids went to see this and still see this, thinking it's a film for them. It's really not! I remember going into the theater and seeing how many kids were there and when I watched the film I was alarmed to see how violent and dark it was... and rated PG-13... this was not and still is not a film for little kids. But it's also kind of an interesting film.
STAR WARS MYTHOLOGY: They had to wrap up a lot of odds and ends in order to tie into the original films and they did it for the most part. I'm not completely sure I understand the full change of Anakin to Darth Vader... I mean I see it up on the screen but I don't know that I completely buy it. Oh and I hated the whole Luke and Leia.
STORY: Dark, dark, dark... and if you take it out of the series, it might be a more interesting. The last part of the film goes to a place I don't think most expected and I think it will confuse people as it ties into the next film.
CHARACTERS: They all did what they needed to do to get us to the next movie. I did think you could see some torture within for Darth Vader. I still didn't buy the love story and relationship between Anakin and Amidala.
ACTORS: Decent... hard to work with the material though. I felt at times they were thinking that what they were doing was more important than a good performance.
THE LOOK OF THE FILM: Blu-ray DVD... awesome. I won't harp on it as much, but still too much CGI and too many non-human characters that have major roles. You don't always have to so many different types of creatures... to me it takes it too far at points.
As for the last part of the film... it's dark in it's look, but the colors are gorgeous and it's a dark film but not visually. You can see the texture all throughout.
THE DISC ITSELF: Nothing too fancy with this one, just the film and then audio commentary.
THINGS I LIKED: The visual, dark, rich colors in the end... from the reds to the dark Darth Vader black in the end.
ALL IN ALL: I felt glad the last of the new films was over. It still ways heavy on my heart and I don't feel it's as bad as 1 and 2, but not up to what I believe the series should be all about. It still doesn't feel like there is any joy or fun with this film.
OVERALL ALL GRADE: An D+
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