A complete and utter disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (29 October 2004)

Sins the movie commits: pretentiousness, being boring, blatant and detrimental overuse of computer graphics, using Jar-Jar at all, using Jar-Jar for the sole purpose of heading the intergalactic council and institute a state of emergency (what the... ????????), creating the most miserable love couple in all movie history, lack of credible and interesting villains, lack of coherent story.
To sum up, everywhere the movie can go wrong it does. The Yoda sword fight scene is the ONE place where the movie acquires entertainment value. There is of course the scene in the colosseum, but that is somewhat of an overkill, being that the aliens in the original Star Wars were never meant to be so nightmare inducing. The security subplot in the beginning is simply wretched. Most of the film is planet hopping and marveling for 5 minutes the computer graphics for that given planet.
Anakin's character is particularly laughable. No wonder only a mother would love such a character. He is a pretentious and spoiled little scumbag. I expected SOME transformation into the evil Darth Vader from a decent person (that would have added to the movie this thing known as DEPTH!), not THIS. And his love affair with the princess is hilarious. It is hilarious to see Natalie Portman try to find plausible acting ways in which she can swoon and be moved by words which would instantly repulse any normal female. She of course fails miserably, not that the miserable lack of chemistry and the absolutely pathetic lines are all her fault, quite the contrary. And you know, if I was female, I would think twice about staying in a relationship with a guy that has just described killing innocent women and children. What a gradual transformation of Anakin into an evil Darth Vader.
A stinker of magnificent proportions!
Rating 2/10
Scale: 10 MASTERPIECE, 9 Excellent, 8 Good, 7 OK, 6 Adequate, 5 Average, 4 Mediocre, 3 Poor, 2 Bad, 1 HORRIBLE