Most definitely the worst out of both trilogies

Rating: 5/10 (28 November 2008)

I saw Star Wars Episode 1 before this a long time ago. Even though it was not quite as good as the first trilogy, I did believe it received waaay too much criticism. Since a friend of mine who believes Episode 2 is the best, recommended to me this film. I then decided to give it a chance. When I first watched it that long ago, I thought it was . . . OK. Nothing, but OK. Now, when I recently saw it again, I thought it was terrible!! Now that I always give films a closer look as I have a great interest in film-making, I just began to hate it more than I might have otherwise.
Episode 3 is probably the best, but this certainly isn't. Ewan McGregor does a decent job at portraying Obi-Wan Kenobi. He is not as good as Alec Guiness, but I give him some credit as he manages to get Alec Guiness' character reasonably accurate. I was disappointed in Natalie Portman and Sam Jackson for wasting their time on this pointless sequel. Hayden Christensen . . . I don't want to mention in him in relation to Star Wars, ever again. I would be surprised if he did not win his razzie award. There are one or two scenes when he shows some decency as Anakin, but other times, it makes my eyes bleed to watch his character. Characters have personalities, you know. He obviously does not know what the word "personality" means. I wish George Lucas chose a person who did.
The screenplay is ridiculous. Add little action, boring sequences, simple story and awful dialogue. There is not a worse mixture of elements to a story. George Lucas may be the brainiac who created Star Wars, but he obviously does not think about how a character's dialogue should sound like. A character! We do not want robots that have same sort of speeches.
Special effects and music, I can praise. John Williams has never disappointed me and he will never be forgotten (I mean, look at his list of Oscar nominations!!). The music at the ending was perfect for Star Wars. The special effects were good, but what can you expect from CGI nowadays. It is just films like Transformers, Iron Man etc, that impress me even with computer generating.
The scenes were not well-visualised (in other words, the directing was poor). I was sad with George Lucas that his camera angles were not that well-conceived. Nothing was spectacular to watch. even the fight sequences were not that interesting. You can say I would rather watch my plants grow then view the action sequences.
All in all, the film was awful. I would not recommend it to any Star Wars fan. Maybe not recommend it to anyone at all! I would rather call this "Star Wars, Episode 2: Attack of the Groans!" (as it was called on the razzie awards in IMDb).