A bit of a disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2002)

Maybe I'm getting inured to the hype of StarWars or maybe the quality is really deteriorating, which ever the case maybe, this particular episode of the saga was a bit of a downer. Yes it has all the glitzy animated creatures/ machines blah blah. But this series was supposed to concentrate on bringing up the characters of Anakin, Padme and to throw light on the reign of the dark side. I totally disagree with the choice of Hayden as Anakin(yes he's supposed to be one of the better looking people as per some magazine) but that still does not upgrade his acting skill which I found wooden and a bit trite. His accent also threw me off as it stilted his line delivery. But then again I did notice a rather racial bias against people of other countries(all the bad characters had accents that we obviously can associate with certain non-american people). All good-white, all bad-asian, south american. However I seem to be rambling on... anyway the initial action scene was a hackneyed scene and didn't impress me at all (too much attention was paid to this scene) and then the action thing just died down, It seemed that Lucas ran out of ideas after this and just put together one hackneyed scene after another. However this does bring all the pieces together of the starwars saga. A one-time watch for me unlike the other starwars episodes...