Nearly as good as the original three movies, but yet notquite.

Rating: 8/10 (9 October 2002)

Contains Spoilers
Well, Episode 2 is MUCH better than Episode 1, it look very like the original three. As one of my friends put it, "it retains the spirit", as the Episode 1 does not. What appealed to me most is the choice of the plot pivot idea - the seed of Annakin's turn to dark side, his murder of the tribe who kidnapped his mother. The idea itself is absolutely convincing and excellent, it is humanly and philosphically sound, it looks true, and I, as Stanislavsky used to say, "believe it". Yet the cinematic side of the presentation is not, unfortunately, up to the excellency of the idea, as it the scene that follows it, the talk of Annakin with Amidala relieving his kills - Lucas definitely knows how to stage such scenes, with memory pictures surging to the screen etc., yet he choose to omit it, which leaves the cinematic side less convincing than it should be.