The movie's OVER-WHELMING imagination makes it worth!

Rating: 9/10 (21 May 2002)

This is a very un-equilibrated movie. Scenes of UNSPEAKABLE beauty and imagination are followed by scenes of acting that is average at best. I gave the movie a 9 without a regret because of its imagination and also because of its action scenes.
The script is average/decent and did not manage to ruin the beauty of the images, which the acting did in some cases. The love story is made up of NOTHING but cliches (and bad ones!) and the acting of the others is rarely average (most of the times, is under average). Humour is as good as inexistent (except for a line or two).
But most of this loses in relevance as to the overall quality when put together with the INCREDIBLE imagination present in just about every picture of this movie. The worlds created here are like nothing you've ever seen (even in Phantom Menace) or you're likely to see anytime soon (except, hopefully, in 2005, in Episode III). There are so many of such worlds, each of them both different from the others and incredibly rich in details, that the feeling is that you are overwhelmed. I will see this movie again and again, bearing the parts of awful acting, just so that I can be "exposed" to the overflowing imagination of this movie, so that I can see new things. Pictures that can make up poster one could watch for hours and not have enough are here present for just a few minutes... and such pictures are by the dozens. This is truly an UNIQUE film.
And, of course, one must not forget sounds. The music is excellent, and re-interprets the music theme of Phantom Menace (remember the fights towards the end of the movie...). But the sounds of the movie manage to suprise even a StarWars fan, accustomed to the imperial fighters and lightsabers from the first trilogy. Bombs explode in space with sounds like you've never heard (no more average booom! explosions), light sabers please the ear once again and so on...)
Unfortunately, what could have been a truly genius movie is drawn back by the acting. Without the slightest intention of making a joke, Yoda has been, by far, the best actor in this movie, followed by Ewan McGregor (who does a decent job) and Samuel Jackson (average). Otherwise, plain awful...
In short, you want acting and story... rent "Ladri di biciclette". You want imagination BEYOND ANY DREAMS YOU EVER HAD and andrenaline rush action... go see Attack of the Clones. Again and again and again...