Ok, here's a review of the new (and final) Star Wars film - their are some spoilers below.
**SPOILERS**
To be honest I was quite disappointed by this film. It did promise a great deal, and in terms of its special effects it is hard to fault the film. But I simply don’t think it lived up to any of the first few films, or far more importantly, the promise of the story. The dialogue was weak, and the acting not much stronger. I groaned almost as much in this movie as in the second – and often in the crucial scenes for plot development.
In plot the motivation for Anakin to turn his back on the Jedi simply wasn’t credible. Love, it seems was the motivation for Anakin to turn away from the Jedi. Sure he wasn’t trusted by the Jedi, and craved the power the Sith could offer him, but it was simply for the love, and life of Padme that he would turn to the Dark Side. Love incidentally is what revealed the good in him at the end of Return in the Jedi, love caused him kill his Master. Perhaps this goes to highlight the complexity of love as an emotion, and perhaps “the blindness” it causes. As I read the AMS review, I didn’t quite get, and don’t get how she has cast Lucas as anti Christian as he linked evil [Vader] and Christian mythology?
It seemed in the blink of an eye, Anakin went from accusing the Emperor of treason, to declaring the he would serve him. It was too quick, for the Jedi he was, (or promised to be) to turn at the drop of a hat. It didn’t work.
There were other issues. I still find it quite hard to except that Leia is the child of Padme and Anakin. Yes it is possible, but I don’t see the steely resolve of the Princess who would stand up to Darth Vader in Star Wars.
I find it hard to believe that the Emperor did not know that Padme was pregnant. For a man who is supposed to have the power he did, to be as blind as he was, it doesn’t quite work. What do you think??
It is not that much comfort to say this is the best of the three, it promised much, but delivered very little.
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