Makes you pray Lucas sticks to directing

Rating: Null/10 (19 April 2002)

After seeing this film I prayed, oh I prayed a lot - my wishlist for God was:
That George Lucas would stick to directing instead of scriptwriting,

That the second film would be a lot, lot better - without Lucas writing the script
That the blatantly racist stereotypes employed in this film would be cast to the wind - which probably means Lucas not writing the script and giving up on his cod-Jungian archetype nonsense
That I had dreamed the awful discovery that mastery of the Force was due to some people being more infested with a little bug thing than others
That it didn't really all start because General Yamamoto and the Japanese navy, sorry the Alien Samurai dudes, decided to impose a tax on some poxy planet
That the next film would not so blatantly waste the character with the most impact, in this case Darth Maul
That...that....that the next film would not suck like a cyclone.

(I hear that Attack of the Clones is v.v.good and rectifies many of the flaws in this film - I shall go on a rampage if this is untrue and I have been lured back into the cinema to watch similar utter tripe)