Went to see it today. Fantastic special effects, but so far as I was concerned mostly wasted.

There's a rhythm to story telling, and just throwing everything at you in a blur all the time doesn't do it. If you're going to take us to strange places and bring in strange people, you've got to allow time to look around and appreciate them and start to care about what happens to them.

And compared to the first trilogy it was so lacking in any real humour or humanity.

What was interesting however was what was slipped in between the special effects. I found it unnerving how topical the basic plot seemed. A democracy manipulated into giving itself over to the dark side, and totally subverting itself, in the process of responding to an external threat. A victory behind which looms a devastating defeat. Amazing to think it's been all that time on the way, and then it comes to the screen at a time like this.