Generally boring

Rating: 5/10 (2 January 2003)

If this had been the first Star Wars film, there never would have been a second. Lucas is going through the motions, but not striking any sparks. The lack of humor is deadly and only a couple of better-than-average battle scenes (but worse than anything in the first three SW films) at the end have any interest.
It was an artistic mistake to make the early trilogy, especially since we know what's going to happen. Further, Lucas is probably incapable of making a film of the level of SW or Empire -- he uses SW as a crutch to hide the fact he's out of ideas.
Sad, really.