I think the actors of the PT were great. Except Sam L. Jackson who doesn’t fit (if Lucas wanted a black actor for this part, I would have loved Denzel Washington to play it, “Jedi Master on Fire” style). Even Hayden is good. But, let’s be fair, it’s hard to be always be good with these lines to play with… As for Ian, it’s strange: he’s very at ease as Palpatine, but when he turns out to be Sidious his performance is… hum… kinda… funny I guess ? His fight with Yoda does sum up the situation: impressive narrative value (Master of Light v Master of Darkness, throwing senate chairs at each other, and there are beautiful shots - due to Spielberg ?) but the fight itself is funny/goofy, with Ian’s performance terrible as hell, and stupid dialogues (“my little green friend”, seriously ?), and it ends with a horrible “Yoda McClane” shot (“into exile, I must go” is the cherry on top that Lucas didn’t give a shit about this whole Yoda v Sidious idea). All key scenes suck, but everything in between actually quite work well.