A marvel for the eye

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2002)

I've not seen the first movie of these series therefore I cannot compare. This movie has got all the qualities and faults that usually are shown by this kind of movies. On the positive side we can name action, movement, marvellous images and a clockwork precision in the image cut. On the negative side there is always the poorness of the story and the message. Lucas is really however a great master of this kind of movies from the technical point of view, maybe the greatest one. The movie theme is the endless fight of good and evil expressing itself here in well built scenes of battles or individual duels of great strength and movement. This kind of movies for lack of imagination of what can be a different world in terms of towns, buildings, clothes, weapons and general behaviour, often recreate past centuries images with frequent reference to the Middle Age or even the antiquity. In this particular movie we have even the recreation of some kind of Roman Circus fighting with a lot of adaptation (lions replaced by monsters etc). One last word to characterize what in my opinion is a good sci-fi novel or movie. Not that one where Cowboys and Indians (or nazis and democratic armies) are replaced by people with futurist clothes and weapons but fighting for the same values as we know them today but a story where we are faced with fictional different values, a different social and social structure i. e. a really different world being the work of the author's creative mind. This movie is very far from such a definition.