This is truley diabolical!!!

Rating: 1/10 (6 June 2002)

I went to see Star Wars Episode 2 expecting it to be bad after the horror of Jar Jar Binks and crew displayed in Episode 1. I got exactly that. This film has to have one of the worst scripts imaginable at times the dialogue was so bad that I genuinely felt embarrassed on behalf of Mr.Lucas. Don't get me wrong I was a huge fan of the first 3 films they are true classics and the prequels could have been superb, there are many good ideas in them and they do have there moments e.g the fight with Dath Maul in Episode 1 and The Storm Troopers (Clones) in the dust on this outing.
I also think that on the whole the visuals in the first 3 films were more believable than they are in this film everything looks so fake. I could however have forgiven this fact had the dialogue not been so terrible. I really feel sorry for the actors involved in this, Natalie Portman is a great actress as we have seen in 'Leon', Ewan McGregor is pretty damn good too e.g. 'Trainspotting', but George Lucas manages to make them look like amateurs. The only real exceptions to this are Christopher Lee and Samuel L.Jackson who are always great especially Lee I must say. I just cannot believe that with such a huge budget and such a great idea they can produce such a poor film, the mind boggles. With a little bit of encouragement my dog could have written a better script. But what annoys me the most is that this will make tons and tons of money, whereas masterpieces like 'The Man Who Wasn't There' and 'Mullholland Drive' will go virtually unnoticed. Mr.Lucas should stop his destruction of the Star Wars saga I say, it has already gone far enough. I am loosing my respect for it and indeed him, stop now George, please, please stop George!
If you haven't seen it don't bother.