The Commercial Menace

Rating: 6/10 (25 August 1999)

Personally, I went to this movie with hopes higher than the budget of this hollow movie. Seeing it on the opening night at midnight, I sat wondering "what went wrong?" The movie's got superior special effects to all the "original" trilogy, and a plot which, unfortunately, does not follow suit. The film is built around George Lucas' love for the hollow world of computer generated imagery, which dazzles us (the podrace sequence) but still left me feeling unfulfilled. If there were as much time dedicated to the human characters (almost none of which I found likeable) as were dedicated to the effects, this movie would be a masterpiece the likes of which we've never seen. However, it falls short in a kick in the stomach kind of disappointment.