What a rush - next time Lucas, add personality to the actors

Rating: 8/10 (30 May 2002)

This second of the new Star Wars movies is a great adventure, which easily makes you forget the terrible Phantom Menace. The movie is filled with great action scenes and Natalie Portman is always a pleasure to watch.

The only problem with the movie is the lack of decent personality in most of the characters. Ewan McGregor as Obiwan is good, but way too decent. His character definitely needs some more substance. Natalie gets the most out of Amidala as she can, but again the character needs some more depth.
Hayden Christensen however, must rank as one of the worst actors I have ever seen. He is seriously awful and is hopefully replaced for the third movie.
I never really understood, why Samuel Jackson agreed to do the part he did. Quite uninteresting part to play for such a great actor.

Yet, all in all, the movie is great and everything is now set for the grand finale, the third movie, which should be even better than AOTC.