The Best Movie In The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Rating: 6/10 (22 February 2011)

Star wars episode 2 attack of the clones is not horrible. While I'll say that the dialogue is terrible and the love story is worthless, Other than that the story is pretty solid. The worst element of The Phantom Menace was the characters. I am happy to say they are much better in this. (Even though that's like saying a slingshot is more complicated than a rock). The character's in this movie can generate at least a bit of empathy. The acting in this movie is often criticized. I don't think this is fair. You have to remember that the dialogue is robotic and unrealistic that I doubt Malcolm McDowell could have pulled off Anakin, and George Lucas was directing these actors. Samuel .l was miscast and the rest of the actors had no real reason to be cast as their characters. The story in this is somewhat compelling and sometimes even interesting, which is a lot in the Star Wars Prequels. It revolves around Anakin having to protect Padme and Obi-wan having to find the person who ordered her assassination. The beginning is solid, the middle isn't horrible and the end is kind of exciting. The worst element of the movie is it's love story. There's been so much said about this I don't need to add anything, but I concur with those who say it is pointless, doesn't make sense, cliché and dumb. The special effects (which I estimate twenty times the amount of time was spent on than the script) are pretty great. It doesn't really look that real, but it does open a lot of possibilities, like the arena scene and the droid-clone battle. This about wraps it up. It's not The Godfather, but it's a nice, decent Star Wars movie. And Jake Lloyd is gone. Thank Christ.