Not half bad, the other half was lame.

Rating: 5/10 (29 October 2005)

Albeit Attack of the Clones was better than the Phantom Menace, it's still fairly disappointing.
The movie starts out with an assassination attempt on Senitor Amidala's life. Which leads 2 Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and his padewan Anakan Skywalker onto 2 separate story lines.
Kenobi investigation on who is trying to murder Amidala leads him to a conspiracy involving the creation of a clone army for the Republic. And to even darker secrets within the heart of the Republic. That was the good half.
The other half is a totally pointless attempt to show the growing, forbidden love between Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala. As well as the tragic loss that Anakin suffers, which starts to lead him to the path of the dark side of the force. We're better off with Jar Jar Binks.
Obi-Wan's half of the movie is intriguing and exciting enough to warrant it a 7 out of 10. But Anakin and Padme's half is so bad, it would not even have a rating. Averaging a 3.5 out of 10.
But the climax of the movie was spectacular. The battle between the clone troopers and the droid army, the Jedi fight scenes, and the battle with Anakin, Kenobi, and even Yoda verses Count Dooku. Not only it starts the Clone Wars animated series, but it begins to lead us to episode 4, the original Star Wars.
And it's this climax that allows this movie to barely attain a 5 out of 10. Closer to a 4.5 out of 10.
However, the overall quality of the Star Wars franchise after the original trilogies is so lousy, that if Star Trek was a dying franchise at the time of the release of the Revenge of the Sith, then the Star Wars franchise was a zombie. Moving, but dead.