Budget in inverse proportion to quality

Rating: 2/10 (1 May 2004)

A horrible, horrible movie. Badly written (a given with George Lucas), poorly acted (by everyone with the possible exception of Frank Oz), and generally underwhelming. Hayden Christensen is embarrassing as Anakin. The action sequences are stupid, contrived, and laughable. The chase scene early in the movie with both Obi-Wan and Anakin making leaps of faith is just silly. There never seems to be any acknowledgment of the laws of physics -- momentum in particular seems to be regularly ignored.
The DVD contains deleted scenes which the commentary usually suggests were removed because they "slowed down the film". In reality, many of these scenes would have provided much needed exposition and enrichment of the meager storytelling. Near the end of the movie, Anakin and Padme are captured and appear to be immediately conducted into a conveniently crowded colloseum -- a deleted scene showing their trial would have made this sequence make a lot more sense.
Does anyone care at this point if the third movie is ever released?