Boring!

Rating: 2/10 (9 December 2019)

I'd watched this on Disney+ as part of my day-to-day Star Wars marathon in time for 'The Rise of Skywalker'. This was my first time watching the movie from start to finish and I did hear how infamous this movie was and after watching through it all, it was bad.
To me, I feel the movie focused too much on the politics and to me that whole plot line was just a total bore. The original trilogy and heck even the sequel trilogy feel more like adventure, mystery and fun and less about politics. Plus it's kind of odd to hear from George Lucas that 'Star Wars is for kids' but what kid would be so interested in political talk?
The actor who played Kid Anakin, I'm sorry but his acting was really bad. I don't blame him though solely, unlike those 'fans' who were horrible to Kelly Marie Tran on social media, I do blame the direction that he took and the bad writing. I mean Qui-Gon Jin was telling him to be safe from the bad guys and Anakin was like 'Okay' casually. It ruined the tensed moment which makes the final battle scene underwhelming.
Now we come to the most infamous character, Jar ajar Binks and yeah he was annoying as hell. Once again I don't blame the actor solely for it I blame the direction that Lucas wants to go with. Jar Jar's presence was annoying with his babbling dialogue and unnecessary comedic slapstick and even he ruined the final battle scene with his cowardice behaviour, yet he was promoted a general. Plus the CG character looked uncanny valley to me since they never blend in well with the physical effect characters.
There were some good like the choreography and I think both Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor were the best actors in this movie. I also think CG Yoda was much a better choice over the puppet. The former has more expression and flexible movement whereas the puppet dies feeling limited and I can see why they went with that for the other two prequels. Don't get me wrong I like the puppet.
Sadly in the end, this movie was flat out bad.