A film desperately looking for a soul...

Rating: 4/10 (24 November 2002)

A strange experience this film. There are so many imaginative elements and such obvious hard work, yet the whole thing is so lacking in proportion it cannot touch the heart. Its an inhuman film. O do not get me wrong, it is full of humane feelings, but they are artificial because its core is cut off from humaneness.
Just as humans need a certain space in which to live and work, art demands a proper space to be seen and heard, a space proportionate to the human spirit. The great artists always have this instinctively.
This film has no such space. Its crammed with all kinds of lovingly attended detail, but the detail is just "there". It has no center, and does not enhance the narrative as good detail does.
And this film wants to be wonderful so badly! But wonder needs proportion and naturalness. For whatever reason, George Lucas seems to lose that sense more and more each film he makes.