TACKY SCI-FI WHICH FORCES YOU TO 'LOSE HOPE'

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2002)

The plot of this film is practically incomprehensible. What I can understand of it involves Anakin Skywalkers' (later to become Darth Vader) attempts at becoming a Jedi Knight, which we all know aint gonna happen. George Lucas' direction is as rusty as C3PO on absinthe. The last notable film he made was The Adventures of Howard the Duck, which isn't exactly the best film ever made. Whats' so surprising about it though is just how dated it is next to the originals, and his attempts at spicing up the technology (double headed lightsabres) only contradicts the original trilogy as it is set BEFORE those times, not AFTER. A good idea would be to have Lucas hire a different director for the next two (which of course he's not) as he is so out of touch with modern film making its' embarrassing (Jar Jar Binks would even be unfunny in a bad 80s' sci-fi film) and the tackiness of the whole film means it looks more like an episode of Stargate or Babylon 5 than the classically constructed originals 3/10.