Please Stop Now Lucas!!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2002)

After putting us through the Phantom Menace Lucas is starting to get it right with this, but its still some way off the original trio. AOTC is not a complete waste of time, the battles are good and the story is starting to fit together with the originals nicely. But there is more to dislike, the original films had character, charm and magic in spades and these prequels are sterile and life-less in comparison. This is down to the rubbish characters, Portman and Christensen are awful at best as the main focus of this movie (acting and dialogue), only McGregory pulls his weight and his detective work in the first half keeps the film watchable. The CGI is the other main problem here. It might work on droids and space battles but the aliens and backgrounds just look bad, the bit in the droid factory feels like it was added so Lucas could churn out a video game based on it (it looks like a game already) and Yoda looks like and extra from Toy Story. I love Star Wars but watching these is depressing