Just plain bad

Rating: 1/10 (17 November 2005)

Having recently watched Ep II on terrestrial TV recently, I've deleted my previous post on this film and updated it below, as I felt my 4 out of 10 stars was perhaps unduly harsh...on all the other 4 out of 10 star films.
Episode II is utterly atrocious. Why? Well let's examine what goes towards making a good/great film and see if we can check any of these factors off. 1) Good interesting spectrum of characters with depth and dynamism. Nope. We have Anakin - 'if I frown, then people will know I'm angry' - Skywalker, and Jedi - what do you mean by 'joke'? - knights. 2) A good believable script which keeps us interested, and gradually reveals more and more details which we don't foresee leading to a conclusion from which we learn something about either the universe it is set in or about our own world and lives. Nope. It seems Lucas missed the 'how to write dialogue' lectures at 'Directors College' and since others have derided the script in more imaginative ways than I could or indeed Lucas couldn't (let's just say it makes Star Trek look like Shakespeare), I'll move swiftly onto the third thing which makes for a good movie. 3) Good actors. Aside from McGregor and one or two others- nope. 'I'm in charge of security here m'lady' which although relates to point 2, could have been delivered in a more convincing fashion by a bank robber in the process of robbing a bank at night and being caught by the female bank manager who asks him 'What the hell he's doing here'.
Simply put I cannot believe anyone would think that this waste of celluloid has anything positive about it whatsoever.
The whole mundane exercise is humourless, fun-less, two-dimensional drivel which is a galaxy far, far away from the original trilogy.