Visually Nice, but the dialogue, cover your ears

Rating: 1/10 (21 May 2005)

I'm sorry, but I expect more from a movie than imagery. I expect a story, characters who develop, who have depth. If there are plot holes, okay, but they must be somewhat reasonable, not idiotic. The story is dreadful, the dialogue juvenile (no not even juvenile, rather childish). There are so many holes in the plot, you could market it in the cheese section, under Swiss, but then again it could be just American cheese for the script itself. The main problem, I think, has to be there is no suspense, we all know who lives and dies. Why bother having a 10 minute light saber duel, when you know the outcome. Somebody once said Lucas looks to Kurasawa for inspiration, but watching some of those classic samurai movies, the duels are over in 5 sec., much like real world fencing. That would in this case be much more dramatic... But back again to the acting and script... the Jedi are incredibly dense not to sense the bad guys and anakin is so dim, you can see why he ended up being the second banana in the original movies. He obviously has trouble thinking for himself, seems to never gotten emotionally past 12. How he ever got Padme pregnant, we can't imagine. How she could love such a child? The whole thing actually left me angry at the end.