Sorry, George, you've lost the plot

Rating: 3/10 (19 May 2002)

The special effects in this film were stunning, and therein lies the rub.
The focus in the two recent episodes of Star Wars has been too much on the effects and too little on the rest. "Attack of the Clones" has reached a new nadir. The dialogue was slow and clunky, the acting wooden, and the characters two-dimensional (at best!). Perhaps the difficulty of acting on their own against blue backgrounds has got to them, but none of the actors shone, here. If you closed your eyes, it sounded more like a poor quality radio drama, with the actors reading through their lines rather than playing them.
A big, too long and boring disappointment. If the remaining four episodes continue to decline at the rate of the last two, then audiences are going to start leaving in droves.