disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (14 June 2005)

I can't write anything new that hasn't been written many times over. The trailer looked awesome and that's as good as it got. "Phantom Menace" (and I'm not sure what that refers to) was weak. "Clones" was much better (not great, but at least up to "Jedi" standards). I was really hoping for a blow-out, in the ballgame sense, not the tire sense. What a letdown.
What I'm beginning to wonder is 'What is the thing about people losing their hands?' There's quite a list. Over the six episodes, there's the unruly alien in the bar on Tatooine that Old Ben takes out, Luke, Darth Vader (two of 'em), Dooku, Mace Wendu, and others I may have forgotten. The father/son connection between Luke and Vader is okay, but it starts to remind me of the good guy in the old westerns who only shoots the baddies in the hand to disarm (no pun intended) them and never actually kills anyone. This is just another cliché to add to the pile.