Why does Lucas insist on directing?

Rating: 2/10 (12 April 2008)

The story was there. Some decent actors were there. The money was there. The technology was there. But there were a couple of facts that inconveniently ruined this movie. Fact one: although Lucas is a great story writer, he is one of the worst dialog writers/directors ever to disgrace the medium of film. If he had just recruited a co-director to actually coach the actors and tweak his painfully awkward dialog, this could have been the movie that actually matched the quality of episodes 4-6. Second fact: Hayden Christenson is not a good actor. Sad but true, it was hard not to laugh at his performance. The other actors in this episode bravely try to wring some believability from Lucas' hackneyed script, but Christenson doesn't even try. Sad.