Looking at the film on its own merits, Ansen concluded that Lucas's directing skills had gone rusty after 22 years. The psychology of the main character Anakin Skywalker's defection to the Dark Side is never adequately explained, writes Ansen, and the whole plot lacks tautness.
就片論片，這位電影專家的感想是，魯卡斯二十二年沒導戲，技巧生鏽，既沒有交待劇中主角「天行者」淪落為大魔頭的心路歷程，劇情也不夠緊湊，令人大失所望。