8/10
Why?
This movie, and the first one too, felt pretty much believeable in a sense books and movies aren't actually allowed to be most of the times.
You see, you need interesting characters in a book all around, good pacing all the time, incredibly smart decisions all around with no holes in logic, nice things like 'wow' happening every single instant and so on, so on, so on.
Well, real life isn't like that. Try to write a movie about any event in the history of mankind, any of them, as long as you deliver a movie 100% as the events were. Won't be the nicest movie around, will it? At least not the way we are used movies to be.
Maybe that's why I felt this movie was pretty much like a window to the Star Wars universe. A bit like Lord of the Rings really (not that I'm directly comparing them) - Tolkien wasn't worried shit if you think Bombadil was useless to the tale or the lack of romance a let down. It went how things were supposed to happen, see. Don't like Jar Jar? Boba Fett didn't make sense? The problem is yours, that's how the story went.
Still some lines could have been better (felt like they were simply thrown there) and Anakin just popped his arrogance out of nowhere. Maybe we need a movie between I and II.
