In all honesty, I gave it one and a half thumbs up (7).
It's my favorite of the prequel films, but in my personal opinion, I feel like Lucas really dropped the ball with that film.
There are moments in that film that I love, but there are some seriously terrible moments in it. In all honesty, you have Mace Windu who is supposed to be a great jedi warrior and Palpatine who is one of the greatest sith lords to exist. That was the WORST lightsaber duel of all time in my opinion. I really would have liked to see just how powerful Windu and Palpatine really were. I remember imagining how awesome it would be to see Palpatine with a lightsaber when I was a kid. But I didn't see that powerful sith lord or jedi. I also would have liked to see Kit Fisto and the others last more than 2 seconds. It would have been brilliant to see Palpatine play with his victims first.
I also have a bone to pick with Anakin raiding the Jedi Temple. That was another moment I waited for growing up that I never got to see. You learn about Vader, the mighty Jedi slayer, yet he storms into the temple and you don't see him kill a single jedi! You see a brief moment in the security hologram, and it eludes that he slaughtered younglings. I mean, he can go to Mustafar and kill the trade federation and separatist leaders and you get to see that just fine, but nope, not a single jedi by Anakin's hand. You get to see Jedi die during Order 66, but not by Anakin's hand, which, I believe, is a very big part of Vader's story and history. It's part of what makes Anakin fall so low. It was important. Sure, we knew he killed Jedi, but we also knew he was involved in a volcanic accident, yet we still got to see that.
The younglings scene annoys me even worse. He's in the temple, jedi are fighting all over the place and he walks into a room to handle the younglings and no one is trying to stop him. Who's taking care of all those Jedi? The 501st? That scene makes me feel like Anakin took credit for slaughtering countless Jedi that he never slaughtered. The 501st seem perfectly capable, after killing that Jedi on the landing pad. Even the 501st can kill Jedi, but yet again, we don't get to see Anakin doing that. But, i would assume that there were a ton of Jedi in that temple and I would imagine that they would have slaughtered the 501st, realistically. If it really were that easy, the sith, or anyone for that matter, could have walked right in there and done that a long time ago.
Also, the fact that all importance from Padme, minus child birth, being removed from the film was a little irritating. She went from being a founder of the rebel alliance to being reduced to brushing her hair and dying. Just felt like a really disrespectful end to a character of some importance. I think Padme deserved a bit of a story in episode III.
I don't know, those are just a few things that bug me, personally.
