I just can't hold it in anymore... It totally sucked!

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2001)

Hmmm, I was going to reserve my opinion of this movie but after reading all of the other reviews no longer can I bite my tongue. Sooo many reasons why this movie fails so I'll list them :-

a) The stereotypical ethnic aliens (Jamaicans, Asians etc) b) The extremely wooden acting from the lead characters. Mainly Jake Lloyd (Sorry kid but even you at your tender age has ta know that you were pretty bad. Not the kids fault though, more George thinking that his own "genius" would create a magical reality allowing even non-actors to perform... me thinks he is starting to believe his own hype) c) Boring, dull and unimaginative direction from mr Lucas. d) Bad Lighting e) Highly convoluted and tedious script that included.. f) Action pieces that were strung together in the hope that they could hold an audience for an hour or two and hide the fact that the script went no where g) A large amount of "suspension of disbelief"
All in all a very empty movie, and no this isn't because it wasn't as good as the original trilogy. Its because George (And maybe Rick has something to do with this... actually probably a lot, it doesn't help that your producer is a "Yes man") has forgotten what hes doing. He tried to create a dark world with bright vibrant (And garish) colours... even a good director would find this hard to pull off. I guess a good comparison, more so than the other episodes, would be "The Mummy Returns". Ultimately a silly movie with similar set pieces but one that was a lot more enjoyable because it didn't take itself too seriously. And no George, trying to inject slapstick humour through the likes of Jar-Jar and one-dimensional characters doesn't count. On a good note, Darth Maul was a worthy inclusion... shame that he was a last minute one though, and therefore had to cark it. Oh well. I guess like everyone else I'm disappointed but I'll still relieve my myself of $10 and see "Attack of the Clones" (Good name eh?) when it comes out. Oh well, George has sucked us all in. Just hope that instead of spending all that money on marketing he's made a respectable movie instead.