Not bad, but...

Rating: Null/10 (2 February 2003)

Episode II is NOT a bad film, but its not great either. It could have been great, but some aspects of it, degrade it:

The story is good, but it lacks 'feeling', the feeling that, Star Wars, ESB and Return of the Jedi have, you care more for the story and characters, in these new Star Wars films you simply give a damn.

The casting for the Anakin character was not the best, the actor Hayden Christensen performs his acting like he is in a N'Sync or Westlife video! He even looks like a member of those terrible groups. I still cannot see with the bad acting he did, that his Anakin character and Darth Vader are the same person.

The excesive computarized FX, in some parts they are very good, but in much others they simply don`t look real. Compare the beginning of Star Wars or the Return of the Jedi, the star destroyers and the planets LOOK real, like you are looking through a window in space, that`s one of the reasons because those movies were much more successful than the new ones. The FX in this last movies simply look as what they really are: computer generated scenes, nothing more, the viewer knows it and because that, the magic is gone.

Lets hope that for episode 3, Lucas ends the saga with greatness, something that Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones don´t have.