First the franchise lost its soul, now it has lost its way.

Rating: 2/10 (16 May 2002)

This film is Dawson's Creek in Space, with special effects sequences thrown in for no particularly coherent reason.
Perhaps you could forgive the leaden characterisation, the pointless dialogue between McGregor and Christensen, stupid Ominous Lines being forced out of Christensen's mouth, C3PO being reduced to a comic-relief cipher; but what you cannot shake is the total lack of wonder, mystery or fundamental sense that these might even be individual protagonists with motives and personalities and suchlike, instead of riding a flagging merchandise bandwagon to dramatic hell.
Why must Portman and Christensen hop irrationally from danger to danger... who cares, The Plot demands it. And you thought Episode I was contrived.
Don't bother seeing this or the next high-tech soap opera that follows it. Portman and McGregor should be ashamed.