Second best of the Star Wars films but it still needs more work.

Rating: 9/10 (2 November 2003)

Fine and Much better follow up to The Phantom Menace plants the seeds of what is to come but lacks the conviction to take it forward to where it should be. It needed to be darker, and the love story needed more to make people believed that they were really in love. The script needed work as well, and I think a good rewrite could have been ordered if they took a little more time with what they were trying to do.
I will say that its probably the best entry in the saga since `Empire' but it lacks that film's conviction to take it all the way home.