Getting better.

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2006)

After the weak first entry in the star wars prequels, AOTC steps it up a notch. The acting is slightly better, even though Christensen is the worst actor in the movie. The action is more plentiful, the effects are better, and Jar-Jar is hardly on screen, and he's a senator, so he doesn't screw around. Christopher Lee, Ian McDiarmid, Natalie Portman, and Ewan McGregor give good, but not great, performances. Some scenes don't work, like some scenes with Padme and Anakin, but some work very well, like the droid factory (minus C-3po), the tusken camp, the arena, and the clone war. The lightsaber fights, though, are much too short and not how they have been in the other movies. Yoda and Dooku's duel was good, but like I said, short.
7/10. Not quite "there" yet.