I'd like to have seen something a little more epic. It's like every scene is either people sitting down, or armies of thousands with flashy cgi lasers and shit buzzing around the screen.

I just felt like I was watching a soap opera pasted onto a bad series of cut scenes from a 90's first person shooter.

Had the story been a little more engaging, it would've merited the scale in which it was composed, but for a badly written political drama with robotic acting, I could've shot it in a Detroit apartment complex with the same effect.
George Lucas used to be a name that made you think of great effects and great shots. I still have a lot of love for George Lucas. THX, American Graffiti, and Star Wars were very good films, that I consider to be definitive 70's films.

George's films had such an iconic look to them. You don't get any of that in the prequels. There were some neat sequences, but many of them were borrowed and uninspired. It's like "Look it's a John Ford shot" , or "Here's a taste of Kurosawa"