Yawn.

Rating: 3/10 (1 December 2002)

I think I got through about 80% of this movie. I mean, it was on for a LONG time before I finally decided to stop it. But I don't know how long exactly, because my Toshiba does not have a timer counter on it while the DVD is playing, but it felt like almost 2 hours and maybe a little more. I just know I started getting really drowsy, especially in the latter half of it.
In brief, it's a boring movie. It's boring because you don't care about the characters, so it's not fun to watch them do stuff. Amidala and Skywalker are just a couple of mopey teenagers who have this non-existent "romance" that goes on and on, groundlessly, and Christensen's acting (with exception of a few good scenes.) is totally dull and flat. Natalie Portman's performance was better in Phantom Menace; at least she took her queenly duties seriously, while here she is just girl-next-door ordinary and uninteresting. And even if you *wanted* to like Anakin, you really can't, because you know he's going to turn into Darth Vader.

Now there are some interesting scenes with Obi Wan, but not enough to offset the dragging minutes and minutes of blahblah political meetings between the Jedi and the hours (?) of inexplicable "love" between the kiddies. In short, "Attack of the Clones" really goes through its paces like an angsty Teen Movie dressed up in CGI, until the end which, I'm told, has a big long battle sequence. But I turned it off before then, despite trying really hard to get through it and telling myself that I needed to finish it just to be able to SAY that I'd seen it.
Dang, it was just so BORING! And I don't turn movies off very often-- The last time was for 'The Love Letter' (Ugh.) and the time before that was for 'Event Horizon' (UGH!) ... I think Phantom Menace is the better of the two so far.