painful acting

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2008)

I think you have to blame George Lucas for the painfully shallow performances by Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen. They've both done reasonable work in other movies with better directors.
This movie is about special effects and grand vistas and breathtaking settings.
But when you are actually in the middle of a scene involving sentient lifeforms, someone cracks a window and all the air is sucked into space. Screams of silent agony rise from the Emperor's latest torture chamber, i.e. your local movie theater.
George, please become an executive producer and exalted director and please delegate everything to a talented and ferocious star who will do justice to what you've created. Let go of the writing and dialog so we can enjoy these movies and they can become epics, not compromised behemoths.
Really, you are going to have to re-shoot all the dialog from the last three movies and re-release them.