Maybe I was asleep during the good parts

Rating: 4/10 (28 December 2002)

As I was walking out of the theater, I kept wondering if I had fallen asleep during this movie. I could not recall any interesting characters. I could only recall confusing battle scenes and lame dialog which did little to advance the plot or explain the characters' motivations. I did not understand what Padmé and Anakin saw in each other. Their awkward dialog and wooden acting was painful to watch.
The second half of the movie is made up of a ridiculously complicated battle scene. But instead of being exciting, it was so complicated that is was hard to follow the logic or the flow of the battle. I could not tell who was winning or what the strategy of the battle was. Whenever I started to follow part of a battle there would be lots of flashes and the scene would change.
I agree with reviewer CRoWsNest96 who said that this movie should have been titled "Episode II:Anakin, the sulky years". Anakin in this movie is uninteresting and unlikable. He is a spoiled bratty teenager. Those are bad attributes for the protagonist of the story.