"Professional" critics must have gone into wrong theater.

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 2002)

I was thoroughly entertained for the entire movie. The 8 1/2 hours I waited in line to see it at 12:01 were not enough! For that movie, I think I should have waited more.
In reading the "professional" critics and their reviews, I honestly don't know what movie they saw. This movie not only offered action, and romance, but it developed a truly epic plot and set the stage for a very long wait for Episode III.
In action, it rates as the best of the five movies to date. Every scene had something to do with the larger story, as opposed to Phantom Menace which wasted time on action scenes with little to do with anything. Episode I, which should get some credit for clumsily setting up this epic story line, was clearly a display of Lucas shaking the rust off of a long break between 'Jedi' and 'Menace.'
The rust is off, and 'Clones' takes the series to new heights!