Excellent movie, fine addition to the Star Wars family

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2002)

I am a huge Star Wars fan. First off, no movie could live up to the original Star Wars. As great as Empire and Jedi were, they weren't as good as Star Wars. Maybe technically or artistically they were better, but the original is just that, the original and it is very rare to eclipse an original.
Attack of the Clones is 50 times better than the Phantom Menace. It's story line is close to the standards set from episodes IV - VI. The visual and special effects are the best yet by far, which makes sense given it is 2002. The fight scenes were great, there was almost constant suspense and action. I really loved this film. And as you know, almost no jarjar (who ruined the first movie).
It can't match episides IV - VI in acting, or at least it wasn't given the chance to. There were great actors in the IV - VI. The actors in I & II are good too, some of them great (Sam Jackson), but I & II rely more on action than plot/character developement. I think this is more towards the times, in 2002 Lucas can do whatever he wants with the computer effects, something he couldn't do in IV-VI. So he had to rely more on acting and characters in the others where he didn't have to here. I would have like to let the actors do more acting in Clones, but all in all it was an excellent movie.