A real disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2002)

I tried to set aside any critical attitude when taking my niece and nephew to see this. I tried to just go with it and be transported into Lucas' world. But the acting was so bad, so cramped, and the story was so thin that I failed. I guess the makers of this film believe wholeheartedly that American audiences are incapable of understanding a well-developed story; they must constantly be bombarded with FX and CGI. It's great to have alien life forms for sci-fi films, but the ones in this movie have no more interest than paintings on the walls of the local bank. Spider-man was pretty good, though. Much better story and acting, anyway.