bread and circus for the masses

Rating: 4/10 (9 June 2005)

What a huge waste of potential. At least I felt closure in that I had watched the entire SW story.
Great light saber battles? Give me a break, right-left-right-left-high-low-high-low-lock and talk. I thought they were Jedi and this movie centers around special effects (circus, if you don't know what bread and circus means) so Why don't they bust out and do something interesting more often than the almost predictable points in time where they need to do something different?? The old saber battles from the originals weren't incredible on their own but at least the audience felt there was something worthwhile at stake. These battles are just passing time with very little suspense- not because based on the story you know who Must win, but because they simply are not that interesting.
Even the opening war in space is weak. If all you need is effects to satisfy you then, well, you got what you came for. If you want some suspense, some shifts in momentum, some Intrigue... then don't get your hopes up. The closest moments to that are "oh no, I'm in trouble" - "wait, ill try something" - (( obligatory moment of false concern )) - "ok it worked" Action packed but the action is, sorry to keep using the same word but it describes it best--- WEAK. And how did they miss the cheesy, awkward, poorly scripted moments in some of the conversations?? I thought people are paid good money to review these things but apparently this assignment was due the next morning. Or is there a greater plan at work here? To get people accustomed to spending their money on lame garbage I suppose.
I think 1/2 of the people who seem extremely happy with this movie just Want to believe it was a good and cant get around the fact it was fairly weak. And the rest (or maybe just plain all of them) are good examples of the general stupification of the world as a whole and how low people set their standards.
Alright well time to end this. Watch it to see the whole SW thing, but I'm not sure you'll want to see it twice except late at night if you're high and don't feel like going to sleep just yet.