Hayden Christensen is not the only problem....

Rating: 4/10 (23 August 2017)

Spoilers!!!!!
From the moment it starts I knew it was going to be worse than Episode 1. When the queens ship breaks through the clouds, lands on the platform and explodes every single moment of that piece sets the tone for the rest of the film. The CGI is awful and looks like a half decent PS2 game and as the characters rush over to see if the queens double is OK the acting is even worse than the CGI...then you get CGI Yoda and then Obi and Anakin in the lift. By this point i'd seen 4 of the principle characters knew this was going to be bad...
The most frustrating thing about the whole film is that George Lucas learn't nothing from the first films failings and as the film progresses I found myself thinking "how could he think this is good?"
Hayden Christensen is bad yes but so is everyone else...he is not the greatest actor ever but Lucas takes this poor boy with limited range and puts him into a film making process that not even the likes of Megregor, Portman or Jackson could deal with.
When all is said and done I dealt with Episode 1 by thinking "ok, it had to start somewhere and the pod race, Qui Gon and Darth Maul are awesome so i'm sure it will mature when they're all a bit older" but no...
I would have been happier if after 3 years of waiting Lucas just said "sorry, its rubbish, so i'm not going to release it, you'll all have to wait another 3 yrs whilst I get James Cameron to make a new one"