Great special fx, poor script, poor acting, poor direction, poor ...

Rating: 4/10 (20 May 2002)

I can't believe people give this film 10/10.
This only slightly improves on the Phantom Menace. The major problems I have are the phoney accents every character possesses, the overuse of computer-generated characters as, yes, it does look fake!!!, the very odd phrases some of the characters use, and YODA!!! I tire of this way of speaking. It was kind of cute in Empire because he was hardly in it, but he's in this film all the time and all the time the speech construction he uses is terrible.
Most of the time in the film was wasted with silly chases that offer no plot development, but just show off Lucas's (good) special fx. In fact, the plot in this film is very thin.
The chase at the beginning had the changeling character just being killed, which was a shame, and the chase just went on forever!
The whole love ritual between Anakin "Anni" Skywalker and the Senator was just incredibly stomach-churning.
I thought that the part where Amakin goes on the rampage after discovering his mother was convincing, but that was a fraction of the film; everything else just didn't convince me at all. The amazing thing was that people were laughing out loud in the cinema I saw it in, and the whole Yoda scene at the end. Well, just silliness!
Oh, the music is fantastic, as one would expect from John Williams.
Overall, a weak 2 star film (out of 5).