poor acting, laughable dialogue and muddled storylines

Rating: Null/10 (14 June 2002)

Cheesy, and not in a good way folks.
I loved the original Star Wars series but I really am amazed that so many intelligent movie viewers are raving about this film.
The acting was dreadful. Ms Portman was just about the exception to this and at least Ewan Macgregor has improved a bit since the bizarre performance he gave in 'the Phantom Menace', but overall the delivery of lines in any scene was always so laboured and painful it was like amateur porn actors had taken over the movie set.
Ok, some of the lines were so bad it would have been hard for De Niro to pull them off, but the real blame must be with the Director as he got some very very talented actors into this project and managed to make them all give the most lifeless performance of their lives.

Excruciatingly bad dialogue was everywhere, really just too corny for words. Someone really lost sight of the old showbiz adage: "Don't take yourself too seriously if you are writing dialogue for a classical style 'Epic', set in space"
It really bugs me is that it could have been the GREAT movie I was hoping for, but needs a much more tightly written and well executed edit of the storyline and dialogue, and less wooden delivery from the actors. No amount of nice special effects can make up for that.
In conclusion, should you go and see it ? Of course, this is a new Star Wars movie we are talking about you damn fool ! Go and make up your own mind and I hope you love it.