An OK installment ....

Rating: 7/10 (21 December 2006)

When I first watched this film in theaters, I was very excited cause I was gonna watch Star Wars! I was surprise with this chapter. I was only nine . So as I was all grown up , I've notice that there were many problems with this chapter of Star Wars and I was disappointed.
First of all , the acting . I felt most of the actors here have stiff and wooden acting. They were at times both mature and childish particularly with jake's acting . George could've choose someone else to play the part of Anakin. Another bad acting comes from Natalie Portman. Her performance as Padme was very , very stiff . I mean it almost look as if she has no interest in the movie and just go there do her job without commitment or whatsoever. But throughout the prequel trilogy her performance have improved. The only actors I found amusing was Ewan Mcgregor,Samuel L. JAckson and Liam Neeson. They were very easygoing with this film .
Second, its the story . I found that the story George made wasn't quite exciting as the original trilogy . I didn't say it was bad but just OK.It could've been better. There were things that I didn't like in the plot. What the hell is with the midichlorian thing? It has already been explained that life exist because of the Force and not because of midichlorians. And why does the universe felt slickier than the original trilogy? The things that I liked about this film is the visual effects, the action and the podracing scenes. The visual effects are a big applause in this movie . It looked so real and so breathtaking. The lightsaber choreograph was awesome. They use elements from real Chinese martial arts skills that made it look more faster than the original trilogy. I especially love the duel between Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Darth Mual. I thought the podracing scenes were exilirating. Its even better than real life race . :p So overall this film seems to be an OK film. Its among the lowest of the Star Wars film rankings.
7/10