This is NOT a good movie

Rating: 5/10 (21 October 2002)

Attack of the Clones is an inferior film to The Phantom Menace, and certainly a VERY inferior film to the original Star Wars trilogy. Why? Because it simply doesn't have what a good movie needs: a good script. It appears that the director George Lucas, made his new film from the technology he has. This is a film that doesn't care about it's characters, and it's apparently not interested neither in delivering things the original trilogy delivered: witty, smart and colorful dialogue. This is a movie that only cares to make things look great, to deliver some very fun action sequences, but apart from that, it fails as a good Star Wars movie. And surprisingly, the film it's not as much fun as you'd think. The first 90 minutes of the film are very boring, filled with cheesy lines in a love story that just doesn't work. Even if there is chemistry between the two actors Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman, their characters are so thin, so lifeless, so boring, that I didn't cared for them or for their love story.
Is there something good in the movie? Yes, there are some good things. The visual effects are truly impressive. This is definetly the best-looking Star Wars film. It is filled with beautiful places. The art direction, and the costume design are also good.
Another thing that entertained me are the action scenes. There is one early chase scene set in Coruscant (a futuristic city)that is very exciting. And those last 30 minutes are a lot of fun, set in a Coliseum. But the sad part is....most of the film is not like this.
Attack of the Clones is, in a few words, a weak film. Yes, it is a very beautiful film to look at, enjoyable at times, but as a whole the movie feels very weak and lame, because of it's banal script, bad dialogue, boring first 90 minutes, and....weak acting.