No, really, that's me!

Check this photo. The caption reads in part:

Benjamin Hunt, looking a lot like Darth Vader, joins hundreds of others at Jordan Commons on Wednesday to see the opening of "Star Wars: Episode III

I guess we'll just have to take the paper's word on that.

The reviewer in the same paper, The Deseret Morning News, understates a feature that all of the Star Wars movies have in common " the dramatic scenes don't carry as much weight as the action sequences." I can't imagine that there is much suspense either about what Anakin will do in the end.

This is supposed to be a tragedy, like Hamlet, Macbeth or Othello. But according to Aristotle, you need a noble hero who, because of hubris, walks right into a series of fated events that lead to his downfall. I haven't seen the film yet, but I'm guessing that Hayden Christensen is not up to playing anything like what the main character needs. He was obviously chosen for his looks and because no one had ever heard of him. Lucas seems to have a penchant for using unknowns for his heroes and heroins. Who had ever heard of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher or Harrison Ford before Star Wars Episode IV? Their youth, the fantastic settings, special effects and the action scenes, made up for their deficiencies as actors.