Visually Beautiful...Lucas' Directing Stinks!

Rating: 1/10 (16 May 2002)

Your Kids will love this movie, beautiful colors, sound, and cool aliens. Film makers beware, Lucas is Not a good filmmaker, Spielberg is. Let's be honest, the movie was "busy" from the get-go with CG and more CG. There were a few cool scenes at the beginning (Although rip-off of 5th Element and of course Blade Runner) How about the love story no one wants to see but Lucas, and how he can stretch out bad love dialogue between 2 people everyone already knows are going to be together anyway. Now to Jengo Fett, who is the original clone and father to everyone's favorite Bounty Hunter, Boba Fett. "Little Fett" as I call him, is there for the kids (Ok no problem) However Jengo is there for us Big kids, who have waited over 20 years to see him kick butt. Unfortunately you get 1 cool fight at the beginning, then he gets the AX toward the end. (When you see the arena scene...think Gladiator rip-off) Finally for the main reason this movie is awful, is because "who really is the bad guy?" Not Jengo, not the Senator, but I guess...Count Duuko (Played well by Sir Christopher Lee) So why then do you as the audience have to sit through 1 hour of the movie before finding out anything about this "Villian"? Aren't these movies suppose to be about Good vs Evil? You will leave this movie with 1 of 2 responses, either "Boy the graphics were neato!" or like me and other die hard fans, "What the hell was that? And why do I still not know how the Emperor got his powers after 2 new installments?"
Lucas has 1 more movie to make, and guess what folks, you have to wait 3 more years to see it.
*Oh well folks, just remember that the "Two Towers" will be out in November and Lucas will all be forgotten :)
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