Take off the rose-coloured glasses & listen to the critics!

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 1999)

Hey, this is NOT the best film ever made, despite what you might read elsewhere in the IMDb. Just because people have waited 16 years for a sequel doesnt mean any bit of celluloid with the Star Wars logo is worthy of adulation. Where is the Star Wars excitement or grand design? OK the pod race was exciting, but there was more to Ben Hur than a chariot race, George. Not one of the Star Trek films, oft-criticised for their slow pacing, is as limp or un-involving as this film. If this is meant to set the scene for Episode 2, then we could have had a 45 min. short with all the necessary detail. Everything else is just padding, and pretty unentertaining padding at that.