Better than Episode I

Rating: 6/10 (26 June 2002)

I actually saw this film a couple of weeks ago but watching Spider Man yesterday I thought I might as well review this one as well as there are similarities in what I disliked. Both films have really bad dialogues but while Star Wars was blasted for it (and I actually felt they weren't as bad) no one ever mentioned this fact with Spider Man and most of the dialogues were terribly corny there.
Both films are well made when it comes to visual effects. You get what you expect, but both directors seem to think that effects can replace suspense.
When it comes to acting and characters, I think that the Spider Man cast does a better job but it's impossible to be really good when the dialogues are so bad. The young darth Vader is so predictably unbalanced emotionally - the acting is so over the top that it's boring. Even Ewan McGregor who I normally like is a very weak Obi Wan.
In general I think that the original 3 Star Wars films were so good because of the depth that they had to the characters. All this is lacking in the new episodes. I wanted to buy the whole series on DVD but now I think it's quite enough to have seen it in the cinema. I don't regret seeing the film as I wanted to know how the story continues but I don't want to see it a second time.