Lucas is a horrible writer

Rating: 1/10 (2 June 2005)

Watching movies is a part of my daily activities, and I am aware that my standards of evaluation are rather harsh. But even lowering them for this movie did not help it. Hence the disappointment.
1) Lucas has completely failed as a writer. Film contains an awful lot of wrestling match dialog, which concentrates mostly on the actions that are obvious. I must confess, that 50% of any movie experience for me consists of a good script, which means not only telling the story, but also making it interesting by showing all the different angles of the situation and by presenting a philosophical dialog about the nature of good and evil in Star Wars. What I got was a straightforward political thriller, where the good and the bad are defined by the color of costumes. Pathetic effort by one of the would-be-modern-classics.
2) The character of Anakin is rather schizoprhenic, which would not bother me if there would be a method in his madness. But there is none. We see Anakin swearing eternal love, but after five minutes he is full of hate to Padme just because she does not agree with him on politics (I wonder what would happen to my marriage, if I behaved that way). Then he apologizes to Obi for being a bad apprentice, then immediately betrays him. Instead of presenting integrity of will and clarity of judgment, Anakin easily falls into trap of Sith leader's promises. Still, in the end he blames the world for all the trouble he himself has caused. A fool, not a hero, in my opinion.
3) If Jedi are supposed to be the best of the best (I have not read the book, so I might be wrong), then their actions are have to be in accord to that. Instead, they are short-sighted, presumptuous, insensitive and sometimes simply naive.
4) I must be nuts, but I thought that androids DO NOT FEEL PAIN and that is their great advantage over human soldiers. However, George Lucas proves it to be otherwise.