another zero shot

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2003)

After a bit of dissapointment after The Phantom Menace, I still had some hopes in me that this one will finally live to it´s right. But again...no, it did not. Ok, now we see why did Lucas said that he waited so long for the effects to improve. When it comes to visuals this probably is one of the best in saga. But when it comes to story and what Star Wars are really about, then it´s no better than chapter I, maybe in some ways even worse. But still, there are a few points that I liked. Since the new trilogy is more about silly politics than anything else, I really liked how he treats Palpatine. I could see his rise from the strange character in shadows to the Great Emperor in the old trilogy. We all knew that in Attack of the Clones we are going to witness the start of an Anakin-Amidala romance, but what we got here is dreadful. Dialogues and the whole love story can only be compared to the lines of Dawson´s Creek or some soapish nonsense like that. And the philosophical lines are now laughibly pretentious and meaningless. Again, very similar to chapter one, this is a very enjoyable movie to watch and it has some of the most spectacular scenes ever to be seen in science-fiction cinema. But for a Star Wars fan it´s not even close to enough. Sometimes I think that Lucas shouldn´t go further at all from the original trilogy.