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Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2002)

After getting caught up in the hype of spider-man and going to see it and finding out that all the hype was right, I was praying that history was going to repeat itself with this movie. I wanted, begged this movie to be the god of films and it literally disappointed beyond belief.
First Christensen and Portman have no chemistry of the screen. I really didn't believe that they were falling in love in the movie at all. Then all of a sudden she said that she loves him and I'm thinking, where did this come from. The whole love thing was too rushed and totally unbelievable.
Now I don't know about the digital print of the film since I am not that lucky to have a theater in my area showing it in digital, but the movie looked "fuzzy" to me. Now it could have been the screen or something else, but I would love to hear if other people saw this problem too.
The cgi effect were great as usually and so was the scenery, but we all come to demand that from Lucas.
The whole yoda battle scene that everyones talking about, sucked. I feel that it completly removed Yoda from character. Yoda is suppose to be the wise, father-figure of the jedi, solving problem with his wisdom then light-saber. I think it would have been better to have Mace Windu be in that battle since it fit his character better.
Did this movie beat spider-man for me? Not by a long shot. Am I looking forward to Episode III? Could care less about it. Will I still go see it in theaters? Probably not. Would I go see this film for a second time? I already bought tickets for Friday night (5/17/2002) for me and a bunch of friends. Otherwise I think I go to see spider-man for a third time.
My prediction is that this movie will beat spider-man this weekend and earn $100 million. Next week it will drop and by week 4 be gone from theaters.