Well, maybe not. My initial snap judgement was "It didn't suck, but it wasn't good." However, after getting over the glow of seeing Vader on the bridge of a Star Destroyer, and pondering on the plot problems, I've decided upon "It sucked."
I haven't read any of the movie review sights yet, but I wouldn't be surprised to see my list below is similar to others.
Spoilers.
Anakin's subversion into Vader is unconvincing. Think back to Dagobah, and all the screen time spent between Luke and Yoda, "showing" the attraction and danger of the Dark Side. Contrast that to the "telling" in this movie.
I see two excuses for why Anakin switches: his anger with the Jedi Council, and his fear of Padme's death. However, the real reason is that Palpatine is fucking with his head. Obi-wan does try and work with Anakin on the Council, but doesn't the Republic have good obstetrical medicine? How often do people die in childbirth, and no one bothered with an ultrasound to discover she was carrying twins?
Likewise, how pregnant was Padme at the start of the movie, and how many days/weeks/months until the delivery? Anakin makes out with her just outside the Senate, visits her penthouse apartment, yet no one knows he's the father?
Anakin turns in order to save Padme and his child from death, yet feels no compunction against slaughtering the little Jedi kids. We have screen time where Padme echos my disbelief -- but there is nothing on the screen except frozen facial expressions to explain why Anakin did so.
Mind you, Anakin's final speech to Padme about killing Palpatine and ruling the galaxy "the way we want to" is delivered with the right amount of insanity and meglomania, as well as being excellent forshadowing of Vader's offer to Luke. But again, we are "told" -- there has been no evidence on screen that Anakin was having these thoughts.
How many hours/days does it take to get from Couresant to the lava planet? How long did it take for the scratch on Anakin's face to heal?
And explain the climactic light sabre duel, please? "Give up, I have the high ground." "Ha! I'm better than you!"
Is there an explanation in one of the canonical books as to Yoda? Obviously, he knows far more about the Dark Side than a good Jedi Master is supposed to. Yet why does he run away? Our bouncing green pinball is holding his own in the Senate Chamber, and all of a sudden he gives up. I saw nothing in the movie that would explain why he stopped trying to take out Palpatine. He crawls away via a Jeffries tube, then runs away to Dagobah. Bah.
Obi-Wan's retirement on Tatooine seems similarly forced, and I'm not sure what he says at the end of this movie interlocks with what we hear in A New Hope.
Not quite as bad as the Canonical List of X-Men Dangling Plotlines, yet not very satisfying...
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