Jar Jar is a politician! Need I say any more?

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2020)

Does nobody appreciate the satiric irony that George Lucas created in making the bumbling Jar Jar Binks into a POLITICIAN??? That's the biggest diss against the buffoons running our countries than in any other movie I've seen, ever.
Other than that, Attack of the Clones suffers from the green screen overuse that Lucas is infamous for now, along with the romantic dialogue that is so flatly delivered and cliched that it transcends badness and becomes a new form of communication you won't see anywhere else. Well, I don't see how someone could say that Anakin and Padme's romantic scenes are not entertaining. Also, the opening is also quite choppy with a lot of short scenes going all over the place.
BUT, beyond these criticisms, ATOC is not terrible. Anakin and Padme are really the only bad actors here; overall I think that the prequels actually had better actors than the sequels. It's also more imaginative, and when the final battle on Geonosis comes, it's one of the best extended sequences in any Star Wars movie, beginning with a pulpy Flash Gordon-style execution and culminating in a war scene more creative and massively scaled than anything the sequel trilogy can offer. Plus, Jango Fett, of whom the only criticism I have is that he didn't get to drag a coffin around.
All right, Orson Welles didn't direct this but that doesn't mean it doesn't have to be enjoyable.