Attack of the Drones

Rating: 8/10 (19 May 2002)

I love Star Wars. I watch them with my kids over and over. With all of the hype we've been eating and sleeping nothing but Star Wars waiting with great anticipation seeing the new film.
Well off we went this weekend all pumped up with anticipation and my kids napped for 90 minutes until the action started.
Why anyone thinks this is an improvement over the Phantom Menace is a mystery to me. The characters are still dull, lifeless and undeveloped. At least in the Phantom there was a steady dose of action on a regular interval throughout the film. This film on the otherhand has a very long and in my opinion boring middle with little or no action at all.
Obviously the fun and likeable characters we found in the first three films are long gone and not coming back as so many of us had hoped.
In a nutshell, what made the first three great was fun likeable characters working on top of a good simple story and great special effects. Now we've got boring flat characters working with very complicated stories and great special effects. It's just not the same formula in these new films.
Like so many have said already the last 30 minutes or so were great. Not enough for a complete film however.