What is wrong with you people.

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2005)

I don't know what people are thinking but I thought that this was the best in the series so far. People are to critical of this movie. The acting was fine except for the love scenes. What director of an action flick wants to focus on the dialog of love scenes. You do the best you can writing it and then move on to the other parts of the script.
I thought that Hayden Christiansen was a good choice to play Anakin because you have to realize in this film he is a teenage and most teenagers are arrogant and thats how this character is portrayed in this movie. Yeah I do wish all of these prequels were further along, which means I would have Anakin in his twenties by now but you have to realize this movie was Lucas' vision and this is where he wanted to start the story of Attack of the Clones and I thought Hayden Christiansen did a good job portraying an arrogant Anakin Skywalker.
As for the love scenes I did not care for them. Its not that I didn't like them I just didn't care. I knew that Anakin was going to fall in love with Padme and that this part of the story had to be put in the movie. Yeah, the dialog was little bad for the love scenes, but if you just look past this you can still enjoy the movie.
The pacing for this movie was pretty good. It dragged for only a little bit in the middle during the love scenes but the action scenes were so amazing that you just look past it. The only thing I was a little disappointed about was the light sabre dual between Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Dooku. I thought it was a little short, but when Yoda came in he redeemed it. Personally I thought Episode I had the greatest light sabre dual of the five that have come out.
The story gets an 8.5 out of 10 because it was a little political but I guess you needed that to understand why the Clone Wars started. Acting gets a 9/10 because I thought that the actors did a good job with a mediocre script. A lot of people thought that this movie over did it with the effects but you have to understand that Lucas is trying to modernize his movies and compete with movies such as The Matrix and Terminator 2, movies that have set the standard for visual effects. That being said I give the effects a 10/10.
I liked every Star Wars movie, so in order from best to worst, I put Attack of the Clones in first, then Return of the Jedi. In my review of Episode I, I think I put it ahead of "Empire", however I think third best comes The Empire Strikes Back, then The Phantom Menace,and then A New Hope. If there was a 9.5 on the scale I would give Attack of the Clones that but there is only a nine but I can say this movie gets an A on an A to F scale.