The poor acting coupled with bad dialogue was a distraction

Rating: Null/10 (23 May 2002)

I was so looking forward to this movie - but it didn't meet my expectations. My son (I took him to the first Star Wars movie many years ago and we had a blast) agrees - we rate it good only.
The guy who plays 'Annie' stinks. The first part of the movie moves slowly except for the 'car chase' which was not too bad. The love scenes are absolutely horrible. The lines are spoken as if read out of a book at high school with no inflexion - ruined it for me.
The second half of the movie is better although the 'Annie' guy really ruins most of it. The arena scenes are terrific and finally we see some humour from the robots. The sea scenes with the 'Fett' character are also interesting and the aliens are cool.
We see the little guy finally demonstrate his prowess although it seems demeaning to see him bob around like a cartoon character around Christopher Lee's head (Count Dracula). Lee was terrific. Obiwan was also very good - that's about it.
The first couple of Star Wars movies were where it was at as far as I'm concerned - the hightech stuff is great but get some decent actors and dialogue - please!