The horror...the horror...

Rating: 2/10 (20 May 2002)

This movie had me moderately excited, what with a lot of people claiming it to be the best SW since ESB, personally I'm really not that fanatic about SW but I was hoping for something that would at least surpass Ep1...
Acting:I'm not really sure what to call what the "actors" in this movie were doing but it would be an insult to call it acting. Sure, you'd be foolish expecting Oscar material from SW but this has to be the most putrid "acting" I have ever seen, and the dialog; whoever wrote this should just be deported to siberia or something, anything it takes to prevent him from writing this kinda crap again...Halfway into the movie I just wished the bad guys would kill the entire cast, or that a fire would break out in the cinema or just whatever that would stop this insanely terrible movie...
Music:Insert generic John Williams score here...yawn...
Plot:Mesa thinks this issa sooo stupid, mesa and a Georgo notsa palzee nomore...seriously, did this movie even have a plot?? The first half was just boring and empty, and the second was just an excuse for ILM to dazzle us with their CG magic(which they did'nt manage to do).
Conclusion: I really thought this movie stunk, more so than EP1 in fact. Not only was it boring, every scene where the characters were trying to express any emotion made me want to gag thanks to the indescribeably horrid dialog and exceptionally lame acting. Overall the movie just felt empty and soulless, the artificial nature of almost everything in the movie(backgrounds, creatures, ships, weapons,characters) seemed to rub off on the overall experience. As for the effects and stuff I think they really overdid it, and during the final battles of the film I just sat there thinking "Am I supposed to be excited by this??". The overuse of CG really takes away from the film IMHO. Furthermore the lack of acting and decent dialog really takes away from the experience as you really don't care about the characters. I couldn't help comparing with LOTR where a couple of guys with black robes were a hell lot more exciting than a million cg ships and explosion all over the screen...