Sorry fans, another 'miss' unfortunately...

Rating: 1/10 (17 May 2002)

In a word, this second of the Star Wars prequels is 'awful'. If you're one of the fans who felt severely let down by The Phantom Menace, then this installment of the Star Wars saga isn't likely to ease your pain.
Attack Of The Clones maintains all of the shallowness of Episode 1 and then some. Wooden acting, expansion of the crappy Episode 1 characters and over-done digital effects. Like Episode 1, this movie is nothing more than a series of goofy earth-bound one-liners haphazardly strung together with over the top special effects gags. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved the original trilogy and like most of the world was desperately anticipating the prequels. Well, plain and simple... They Suck. They, like every other movie sequel, are nothing more than cashing-in, over-cooked, over-hyped trash. Don't be fooled into being overly generous about this film once you've seen it just because it's Star Wars. It's just as bad as Battlefieled Earth in every respect, shallow, mindless, over-hyped garbage.
It was bad enough that we, the Star Wars cultists, were forced to accept Episode 1 on the premise that Episode 2 would be better let alone be told that Episode 3 will definitely deliver. Don't be fooled punters, Star Wars is well and truly DEAD thanks to Lucas, McCallum and all those other Hollywood execs that have used what was once a precious movie-going experience as a means of selling you another bottle of Coke and a plastic lunchbox.
If you're like me you'll wait for the original trilogy on DVD and pretend the prequels never happened. Sad but true.
1 OUT OF 10 (one point for John Williams rousing score, it must be hard for a musician to refuse scoring a friend's crappy movie).