there may be no jar-jar binks, but this movie was still awful

Rating: 2/10 (13 June 2002)

I can't believe all the good reviews for this movie that i've seen on this site! What I find the most sad is how movie producers can spend so much on special effects and neglect acting and plot structure. This movie was seriously lacking on the second two elements. Hayden Christian is a terrible actor (of course, they don't give him too much to work with). Trying to be John wayne just wasn't working for him. And Natalie Portman was disappointing as well. I thought she was pretty good in the first movie, but come on!! "I truly, madly, love you...?" THATS PATHETIC!! They turned her into a sappy girly girl! She played an ambitious gutsy 17 year old in episode one, and now she's almost 30 and she's falling for a teenager, one who's starting to go on a power trip at that. PLEASE. Give her a little more credit. Can we get some believable characters please, George Lucas???