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dennyMy company paid for us all to go and see it last night, which was nice of them... having geeky bosses is a Good Thing™
Basically I'd say it's better than the last one, which was better than the one before it. It's hard to compare them to the original trilogy due to the time elapsed and the way that childhood colours my memories of the first set, but I think it's fair to say that Lucas isn't breaking new ground with this trilogy in the way that the first three did. Still, I think that if you didn't already know all the plot twists that are in this one, it would have been a pretty good film.
As it is, knowing the plot of episodes 4 through 6 takes a bit of the edge off of things, and some mediocre under-emotional performances from some of the key actors don't help there - Anakin's decision to turn to the dark side* is downright casual, for instance.
Worth seeing, and imho worth seeing at the cinema rather than waiting for the DVD, but not worth getting too excited about.
* don't tell me that was a spoiler :)
Basically I'd say it's better than the last one, which was better than the one before it. It's hard to compare them to the original trilogy due to the time elapsed and the way that childhood colours my memories of the first set, but I think it's fair to say that Lucas isn't breaking new ground with this trilogy in the way that the first three did. Still, I think that if you didn't already know all the plot twists that are in this one, it would have been a pretty good film.
As it is, knowing the plot of episodes 4 through 6 takes a bit of the edge off of things, and some mediocre under-emotional performances from some of the key actors don't help there - Anakin's decision to turn to the dark side* is downright casual, for instance.
Worth seeing, and imho worth seeing at the cinema rather than waiting for the DVD, but not worth getting too excited about.
* don't tell me that was a spoiler :)
