no soul

Rating: 1/10 (10 January 2003)

The passion Lucas has for his work is lost on the screen. It is lost by the wooden acting mostly, since they lack any passion in their roles. No doubt acting in front of blue screens hinders their performance, but they should work on it a bit more and not move on till they get it right! At least marginally good! Even if their dialogue doesn't help them.
The music, which to me was the best thing about episodes 4-6 (including the original ewok singalong that ended ROTJ), is good, but doesn't seem to push the film like in the original trilogy. There were no moments here for me(like when Luke turns off his computer in the x-wing in ANH) where the music takes you to another level. I think that the lack of a strong storyline really made it impossible for Williams to do much more. Also, the aforementioned bad acting didn't really made me care too much about whether the characters lived or died (in fact, even if i knew they'd be in episode III - and IV through VI- i still wished some wouldn't make it), so the music alone could not make up for that. The over-reliance in cgi makes it difficult for me to believe that the characters are actually "there". When Luke was in Dagobah, you could feel he was there, among the trees in the fog. The characters here don't interact with their environment like they should. It is very distracting; it makes you very aware you are watching a special effects scene in a big budget movie and pulls you out of the story. Not helpful at all.
I wish I could be more specific about the details, but I saw the movie a while ago. I feel like I'm just restating a lot of the opinions of other users. But I really disliked the film, and I'll probably wait to see it again when the whole saga is available in DVD. Before Episodes I and II came out, I could only imagine what occurred before. I imagined it as a very exiting, magical, and epic tale. I never thought that the events leading up to the clone wars could be so dull. THE CLONE WARS, just that name alone , conjured up so much incredible visions. Now we are getting closer to actually seeing it. I really really hope that Lucas surprises everyone a gives us the best film in the sixology with episode III. Out with a bang not a whimper.