How superficial stories can get

Rating: 2/10 (27 May 2002)

Should I see this more positive? Realy? Well, I don´t think so.
I had high expectations (because I definitely liked Episode I and
the 3 others). This movie has been put in the TOP 250 of the imdb-
I hardly can believe it (well I do - You have to be realistic about the
power of marketing hypes). I´ve been a Star Wars fan since my childhood and a SciFi fan in
general. To me this movie marks a turning point that shows what
the misuse of special effects can do with movies. They serve you
fruits and meat and vegetables and hamburgers with ice cream at
the same time and its all very colorful but tasteless all together. Mr
Lucas must have a huge hubris to forget to engage a REAL
DIRECTOR and at least a second actor (next to the wasted Sam L.
Jackson) who has a form of personality. You need good actors
(like Alec Guiness or - well - Harrison Ford) to keep such a story
convincingly together. The so called script just misused the actors
in a really stupid prudish love story and has not a single one liner
to make you laugh. Instead of that we get a video game mixed with every cliché Mr
Lucas could find. I do not want to be a Jedi Knight anymore.