A product of its time - loud, fast, colorful and ... shallow.

Rating: 6/10 (9 June 2002)

Just like "The Phantom Menace", this movie lacks what made the original trilogy become a legend: a soul. The mysterious force, the energy field "that surrounds us all", which could only be utilized by some natural talents was e.g. something that contributed to the "magic" of episodes 4 to 6, now it has been reduced to something controlled by miniature lifeforms called the midichlorians (what a stupid attempt to bring a "scientific" explanation into the SW universe) and which is now only used in some ridiculous action scenes (which are not only inspired but stolen from "The 5th Element") to compensate for the lack of creativity to make up a story for a 2-hour movie.
The whole movie was patched together with no inspiration - an action scene here, a love scene there and a ton of CGI effects to do the rest.
Who needs this lengthy chase of the assassin, the stupid "Anakin-rides-a-fat-ugly-alien-monster" love scene or the robot factory intermezzo which is nothing but a "non-interactive jump and run game" :)? Exploring the dark side of Anakins character or showing more of intentions of the "Dark side" would`ve made up for a great movie.
The Dooku character has some potential though (nice to see Christoper Lee again), let`s just hope Lucas won`t waste him like Darth Maul.