Star Wars meets Gone With The Wind!

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2002)

Yep, I saw Ep2 last night and to save you the suspense: it sucks! At least I think that would be the opinion of any frequent cinema go-er. In short this film is a combination of VERY bad screenplay, good-ok story, impressive but boring at times computer graphics, a very cheesy love story and bad use of good actors.
Let me start with the love story. Lots of people have blamed Lucas for this love story, but he defended him self by saying that it was always part of the story. I have to admit that he is right about this, BUT that does not mean he has to give it so much weight (why no do it like Leia-Solo??), or put stupid lines witch many times made everyone in the cinema laugh (by the way MUCH worse than Gone With The Wind)!
Now, concerning the graphics which go together with direction, both are a vast improvement from Ep1, but, some times the graphics are too much. I mean, why do rooms in CG, it DOES NOT LOOK REAL!!!!! Also, concerning the direction it is still not impressive al all. I mean Lucas has to grow up some time. All the shots are typical of any mediocre action film. I mean, sure this was ok in the late 70s/ early 80's but nowadays action films shooting is much more sophisticated, take for example The Matrix and of course Lord Of The Rings! In both these films cinematography is GREAT!
Now, I have to admit that the story is not bad, in fact at some points it's quite good(don't want to spoil anything here)! However, no matter how god a story is, it looks really bad and boring when combined with stupid, repetitive dialog. This is not just the love scenes, it's everything. For example the Obi-Ani relationship, how many time have we heard such lines before: my master underestimate me, he is jealous of me, I'm better than him, I'm going to be the best, yada,yada,yada! I think that Lucas(and whoever else was responsible) should just STOP WRITING THE SCREENPLAY!!!!
Bad directing is also seen when good actors look like they're acting bad. All the stars her are very good to excellent in other films, can't Lucas be bothered to shoot something twice to get it right??
My conclusion is that this could not have been worse than Ep1 since we don't get to see Jar-Jar that often. But also, from both Ep1, Ep2 I think that the greatness of the first trilogy is owed to anyone but Lucas. Now that he is more involved the films suck. So I say for Ep3: hire the old co-writers and the director of Empire strikes back, or just give the film to Peter Jackson for Gods sake!! BTW, gave it a 6/10