Where is the Force?

Rating: 2/10 (9 June 2010)

I tried watching this again recently. Once again I failed to complete it. Was it the complex plot, the dense psychological nuances that defeated me? Surprisingly not. It was the cardboard producing values with many millions of dollars of special effects behind it. There was so much excitement. A New Star Was 20 years after the original and then the biggest disappointment in history of film.
To summarise: dialogue awful, plotting dreadful, directing also meaningless. There have been criticism of characters presenting racial or ethnic stereotypes. That does appear to be true among the CGI cast. And everyone hates Binks except he is one character that is less irritating than when it was released.
The actors like Liam Neeson emerge with some integrity from the lifeless dialogue except Natalie Portman's Padme is too stilted much of th time. It may have been deliberate to deliver lines as flatly as possible when she's in her regalia, probably a joke about the decoy. But the flatness does grate as it is lifeless. Out of her royal garb and in fighting costume she comes far more to life.
1 for the acting, 1 for the light sabre battle.