What a failure for George Lucas...

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2010)

I hold Star Wars in such high esteem that I'm going to rip this movie way more than it deserves; it's relative to the other films. This is the only bad entry of the 6 films. It's so bad. The opening scene where the decoy Padme gets her ship blown up is done in such horrible fashion. It's presented horribly. There are no interesting cuts or details or anything. The scene didn't capture me at all, just lame. Then some Jedis talk some things out, and Anakin is put in charge of personally guarding and protecting Padme, (ok, great...this could lead to some great scenes) but it turns into a complete love story, and a lame love story at that, believe me. No good lines or exchanges between Padme and Anakin. Very Weak. Obi-Wan is given the task of investigating this Clone Army, and this results in the best part of the movie. Kenobi fights Jango Fett, a very cool scene, and then proceeds to follow his ship which is another very cool scene. It leads to Kenobi getting captured by Count Dooku, so Anakin and Padme have to come rescue him. Just when you think it might be finally picking up and getting good, it turns into the animated series Attack of the Clones and Skywalker ends up in a factory fighting a bunch of alien-bugs while having to use his Jedi prowess to avoid getting smashed in the assembly line. So bad. What potential for a scene, Anakin has to go save Kenobi from Dooku, and this is where Lucas takes it. Was he making this movie for 7 year olds? It goes on as they're all imprisoned and set to be eaten by a bunch of uncreative, lame creatures. So bad. Then the epic final battle breaks out with all the Jedis. Sounds great...not really. Most of the time they're fighting the same ol' droid with little variety, and really all you see is Jedis deflecting laser beams. Mace Windu does actually shine during this battle. His scenes are really good, but it's the only good part of the entire 'epic' battle. So Yoda swoops in to whoop some tail, wait, no, he's just there to give them a ride. OK. Whatever. Off to chase Dooku now, which is a decent scene, Yoda's really good at giving orders. Skywalker and Kenobi eventually catch Dooku and we are given a very nice lightsaber duel. Dooku is too strong, but then Yoda shows up. We get to see Master Yoda fight. Yes! The duel is way too short, but good, up until the end. The way Dooku escapes is so ridiculous, forcing Yoda to use the force to prevent the massive pillar from crushing Anakin and Obi-Wan's bodies. Narrow minded and uncreative. Why didn't Yoda force push their bodies out of the way, then go whoop Dooku some more? Why didn't Anakin or Obi-Wan just move? There were like 100 things wrong with that moment. The ending, just like nearly all the other scenes, was a letdown. There could have been so much more dynamic in all of the action scenes. The overall writing is just weak, and you know what, the set designs are weak too. You think that's one thing Lucas wouldn't mess up (the first 3 were so good in this area) but the sets lack proper detail. What a failure of a movie. Compared to the rest of the saga, this movie is a 3 outta 10, but I guess it deserves a 6.