what is the bigger waste? my $5.50 or lucas's millions

Rating: 4/10 (18 May 2002)

unfortunately, i came into this movie with unusually high expectations. i will try and make this concise. the plot was lengthy and slow. the acting was rather poor. anakin's lines were childish and whiny rather than tortured and misunderstood. the love scenes were similarly weak. anakin again came up short and appeared like a little boy with a obsessive crush rather than a young adult reuniting with his soulmate. the movie consisted of drawn out action sequences that ended in an anticlimax. the ten minute car chase scene and the ten minute run through the droid factory stand out in my mind as particularily large wastes of time and money. i understand that the point of the movie was supposed to setup anakin's turn to the dark side, however, the film barely develops anakin as a character, much less a likeable character that the audience will identify with or sympathsize with. am i wrong or is anakin supposed to be a tragic hero? i cant wait for him to fall into the molten lava pit and stop with the poorly acted and written lines. oh yeah, the c3po "humor" was by far the worst part of the movie. i dont know why anyone over the age of 5 would see it as comic relief. ewan mcgreggor was good and natalie portman was stunningly beautiful and decent. the rest of the cast is forgettable and detestable by turns. i think less cgi, which the movie crammed down the viewer's throat at every turn, and more quality acting, plot development, and dialogue would have been a better use of the ungodly amounts of money lucas spent. all this movie did successfully lower the bar for episode three, further depreciate my respect for lucas a filmmaker and writer, and make me depressed about waiting another 4 years for a movie that will undoubtedly be just as poorly done. is it any wonder why my friends have lovingly dubbed this movie "episode douche?"