Razzies here we come!

Rating: 4/10 (23 May 2002)

This movie is a shoo-in for the Razzie Awards. I predict that Lucas (for worst director and screenplay), Christensen, and Portman will all receive nominations. And that Christensen and Lucas will be winners. At least with Natilie Portman you can look back fondly on some of her previous performances and chalk her less than stellar acting job up to dreary writing.
But Christensen has no laurels on which to rest. The audience I was with desperately tried to retain their sighs and giggles when he woodenly recited banal lines like "I don't like the sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, not like you. You're soft and smooth."
Which of course brings me to George Lucas, film editor extraordinaire and all around creative guy, but who should exile his typewriter and director's chair to a sandpit on Tatooine and hand the reigns over to more talented people who can give his series the effort it deserves.