Where good special effects and bad acting meet

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 2002)

Like most people, I hated Jar Jar and the good thing about this film is that there is much less of him in the movie. Special Effects are pretty cool and might even earn this an oscar. Except for Christopher Lee, most all of the acting is on the level of a high school play. Watching Back Street Boys - esque Anakin
Skywalker emote is almost painful and what's up with that hair? It's hard to believe that the bad guy that seemed so cool in STAR WARS and THE EMPIRE
STRIKES BACK started out as such a goofwad. Natalie Portman is still acting
stiffer than a corpse for most of the film. Supposedly she is some great actress but you'll never know it by watching this film or PHANTOM MENACE. The CGI
effects are impressive even if John Williams only recycled most of the material from other scores he has written except for the love theme. Actually, Samuel L. Jackson is pretty good too but he's just playing the same old tough Samuel L. Jackson you see in any other movie he's in. The action scenes are very good
and keep you leaning forward in your seat. This film is a big improvement over PHANTOM MENACE in a lot of ways. As for the much-hyped High Definition
shooting, I could not tell any difference between it and film so Lucas may be on to something. He probably saved a couple of million bucks on film stock.
Maybe he can use the money he saved to hire actors who know how to act or a
director who knows how to get good performances from the actors.