Just a ordinary movie which doesn't feel like "StarWars"

Rating: 6/10 (18 May 2002)

I just went to that movie yesterday and like Phantom Menace it was a real disappointment. Most of the people will have seen the movie by now so I won't bother about the contents of the movie. But a few thing have to be said. At first the setting is beautiful made. The locations the costumes they all look beautiful and the special effects are awesome. The music is quite good and has a nice opera effect when hearing it. But this doesn't make the movie a "good" movie. Although the landscape is beautiful made it has no atmosphere. The whole look is like seeing a normal US city in the future. The whole concept of another world with its own culture and civilization has been neglected. Those people in that planet is nothing more than the USA in the future. And all the people in the movie behaves the same. No cultural differences. The whole idea that the queen had become a senator was terrible. The whole personality, and elegance of an aristocracy have been wiped out by this idea. A chosen queen??? The whole meaning that Luke Leila SkyWalkers background is "chosen" and "special" is just gone. And the way she acts is so ordinary that you don't find her to be an important person like the people in the movie suggest she would be. The whole concept of the Jedi knight was meant to be some kind of an elite order of knights within the system. In the movie they just differ from the rest of the soldiers that they are fighting with light sabers and not with laser guns. It doesn't fell that they were special at all. They had no special customs or rites. No symbols or mythologies. And the fighting scene was very nice done but also dull. Those people are fighting robots... The excitement is missing when you know that they are just machines. All in all the movie lacks the "magic" and "atmosphere" of a good epic space opera. It wasn't epic at all.