The Worst Star Wars Movie in the Skywalker Saga

Rating: 1/10 (18 November 2019)

I rewatched the Star Wars prequels since it has been a long time from my first watch and unsurprisingly they do not hold up well. The outdated special effects and CGI really takes me out of the movie because they aged horribly and it ruins some positive aspects like the world building and some action scenes. All the acting from everyone was wooden and felt like they were reading their lines from the script without any enthusiasm, except for Ewan McGregor who seems to be the only one taking everything seriously. The screenplay was bad and filled with terrible and boring dialogue, but it had some interesting ideas that could have potential if they were developed and fleshed out more. This is a common flaw with the prequels, in which George Lucas tries to convey some new evocative ideas, themes, and motifs into Star Wars, yet he fails by instead shifting the attention to the technical elements of the movie and trying to set up the events of the Original Trilogy.
I will not go in depth with Jar Jar since everyone agrees that he is the worst character in Star Wars and it is a subject that is talked to death already. Although Jar Jar was terrible in the movie, I did feel like he was being set up to have a major role in the trilogy and the saga as a whole if the Darth Jar Jar theory is true which could make this movie better and significant. Another aspect that annoyed me was the podracing sequence, which felt unnecessarily long and pointless that could have been used for some character development or advancing the plot in some way. John Williams' score is the only consistent positive that all the movies in the trilogy have in common adding familiar and new songs anywhere that is necessary. In the end, this movie is the last movie I would want to rewatch in the Star Wars franchise and it is the most forgettable in the prequel trilogy.