Actors did well with what they were given to work with. Other then that, the story just simply was not delivered well. They tried to cram a 3 movie build up of a story line and character development/back story into 1 movie. It made me care very little for the characters stories, motivations, and bonding moments. I can look past it's similarities to other big time fantasy films, but if your going to have a guy be the "Darth Vader" of the film make him as menacing and a bigger then life titan of evil like Darth Vader. I feel that actor could pull it off but he was bogged down in his performance by the writing for the character.