Post #160240 by tikibars on Thu, May 19, 2005 8:50 PM

Opposite.

Action scenes are overblown and too busy with extraneous background baloney to truly follow the action. They were all really flat to me, unispiring.

Talking scenes: lots of serious plot this time (for once).

The guy who plays Palpatine/Sidious needs an Oscar. He is really frekin' good (except when he's cackling like a chicken). If I weren't already mostly there, he would have had me ready to go to the dark side.

He owned the screen every time he was on it, which is a lot.

Ewan actually gets to emote in this one too!
I always knew he had it in him to make Obi Wan a good role (not Ewan - George. He just had to let Ewan do what he does, and he finally does).

And there's only ONE truly cringe inducing moment - (a certain character saying "NOOOOOOO!" - when you hear it you'll instantly know who's "noooooo" I mean) - so that's pretty damned good, considering the the last two films had something truly awful every five minutes.

It's no Empire Strikes Back, but it beats the hell out of Episodes I and II.