Send in the Klones-again! It's that good....

Rating: 7/10 (24 November 2002)

I liked this. I enjoyed the big battles at the end, the Ray Harryhausen tribute in the Arena, and of course, Christopher Lee. Anything with him there was good-in fact, like the first one-just not enough of the head baddie. George-c'mon guy....
What doesn't work? All the complaints you have heard-Hayden and Natalie being blocks of wood(yes), flat acting, bad dialogue-sure that is all true. I found it hard to sit thru their lovescenes without wanting to paraphrase what they were saying in a more realistic way. Naturalistic dialogue is prob. harder to write than it seems-but it can be done. Lucas should prob. not write the dialogue and let someone else(Steven S??) direct. It would help.
What's good? The Car/chase/city scenes/Jetsons meets Dukes of Hazzard stuff. Very good, fun, roller coaster ride. Boba and Jango are good. The fight on the clone base is good. Ewen MacGregor is quite good all thru here too; they just needed some equally believable performances from the leads too.

There was an attempt to lighten it up-ala the pseudo-Han Solo asides of Kenobi's, more action, and I think that did help out. Lucas spends too much time on the techie side to make the drama work out as well's the action, and w/ the actors all working with blue screen-it prob. does get difficult for them to connect with what he wants.
But no matter-more to like here than not.
*** outta ****, Yes it's better than Phantom Fink Menace; and prob. better than Jedi too. Stop complaining, it ain't bad.