A little bit good, but mostly crap

Rating: 6/10 (8 April 2005)

This is surely better then TPM, but still a childish piece of film. The acting is quite horrible all over, almost the entire story is one big predictable thing and apart from the 'love-theme' the music is not very good either. All by all this film, like TPM, still feels like a very poor excuse to earn money, and if 'Star Wars' was not in the title it could be considered a simple B movie made by some unknown director.
The Special effects are very good though, and the pace is OK, but still there is too much reference to the future, boba fett? bleh! anakin: i murdered them all, darth vader's music theme!, which makes no sense since it was not in episode 4 yet. count duuko is villain like darth maul, only threatening in words, but he never does 'something'. A good villain must murder millions, cross the protagonist before the final showdown and kill someone dear to us all etc. be hated by all viewers/public, but this one's crime is being a politician who wants to split off from the 'republic' which claims to do democracy by having an empire of 1000's planets deliver 1 dumb senator who says 'yeaah' let's make palpatine a dictator!, and next he creates an army to prevent a split in the republic with force!. jeez... wtf!