Something went wrong in post-production....

Rating: 8/10 (5 September 2006)

Perhaps I've been a little too harsh on this film. I recently went back and watched Episode I and II and can finally say that this was my favorite of the prequel trilogy.
But that isn't saying much.
I wanted this to be something spectacular, and for the most part, it was. It had great action and CGI, it had an awesome story with brilliant duels. It had awesome music and all of that good stuff.
But sadly, something went wrong in post. Perhaps the acting was pretty bad. But that is the least of this films problems. It had the worst dialogue out of all six Star Wars films.
And on top of that, the editing/pacing in this film was HORRIBLE. This felt more like...I don't know...more of a really long trailer of a Star Wars film rather than the actual film itself.
It seemed to do what a trailer does, you know? Just when he's about to say a certain line, it has a fancy (and annoying) transition that cuts to a completely emotionally inappropriate scene for the moment.
The CG was good, but some scenes just looked horrible. Like, in the "Jedi's Die Montage" there was a scene where this Jedi is walking through a big "jungle" like place. It looked so horrible it wasn't even funny.
I think my favorite character in this whole film was General Grievous (sp?). He was awesome.
There are many continuity mistakes between this film and episode four that cannot be fixed in the possible TV show. I won't go into detail about those problems, though.
I guess the best thing about this film was the opening scene and the last duel between Obi and Ani. That was bloody brilliant.
This film had a little bit of everything, I guess, which made it the best of all three new films. It had superb action scenes and corny romance scenes and all that good stuff, whereas the other two either had an extreme amount of romance or...you get the picture.