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Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Widescreen Edition)

Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Widescreen Edition)

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Could have been a lot better!!
Review: Episode II, while a hell of a lot better than Episode I, was nothing in terms of the original trilogy.

I think, and it seems almost everyone agrees with me, that the script was bad. The dialogue in a lot of the scenes should have been rewritten. Like that scene where Anakin is having the nightmare about his mother, that looks more like he's having a wet dream about Padme.

The battle scenes were good, but I just hope GL doesn't do another asteroid chase in Episode III. Special effects were great, most of the time the CGI stuff looks real. That's why I gave it three stars.

I have to admit that my favorite scene in the entire film was near the end when Palpatine & Co are looking off the balcony at the thousands of Clone troopers and the ships taking off for the war.

The one thing that I noticed in the film that's a discrepency, specially if you're a Star Wars nut like me, is that the Imperial emblem is painted on the side of Obi-Wan's fighter. If you watch the original trilogy, it's painted on the uniforms of the Tie fighter pilots.

I hope that Episode III will save the trilogy and not bury it. From what I've heard it has a lot better script. But until May of 2005, we can only wait and wonder.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a good movie
Review: in this movie you see charters you see in the first movies. like jinga feat son is bobba feat.they also show the plans to build the daeth star.last but not least the show whean c3po gets mad at r2d2. i think you should look at this movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bitterly Disappointed.....
Review: This is by far the worst of the Star Wars movies. It is so bad that I could not even bring myself to buy the damn thing. George Lucas has squandered the mythical power of the original three movies for an insipid, meandering storyline that NEVER catches and holds your interest. The script is TERRIBLE (written by Lucas?) and the acting abilities of Christiansen and Portman are simply non-existent. They deliver their lines with such a laughable lack of conviction that I fast forwarded my rental DVD through their awful "romantic interlude" scenes to the SPEFX action scenes, which redeem the movie a little, but not enough to save it from banality. And then, of course, there is the return of the detestable Jar-Jar Binks, the worst conceived Star Wars character of all time. Lucas has one more chance to save his magnum opus. Episode III, in which little Annnie is transformed into Darth Vader must be a very dark tale indeed. If Lucas resorts to a happy-schmaltzy ending like he did in Return of the Jedi, we will sadly have to consign this entire Star Wars prequel to abject failure.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Good Special Effects, Bad Everything Else
Review: Obviously someone who doesn't like dialogue wrote the script (let me give you a hint-George Lucas), because the dialogue is lame and downright cheesy (That pickup line involving sand and Anakin? I would have slapped his face off and told him to keep walking). However, the special effects are so real looking, and that could be the problem with the infamous bad acting. If you can't see it, it's hard to talk to. Because Star Wars is such a cult classic, the writers feel as if they can get away with any bad writing because no matter what, people will still reverentially love the movie to death. And why didn't George Lucas pick someone with better talent to play Anakin? Hayden Christensen is downright horrible, even when he has a scene with someone who is real. All over, the movie stinks.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: It's getting worse
Review: If "The Phantom Menace" was the beginning of the decline, than "Attack of the Clones" is a sure evidence that George Lucas has quit tring, story wise at least. It is basicly "The Empire Strikes Back" with way superior special effects. Ten years after "Phantom", Senater Amadala has been targeted for assaination. While Obi-Wan goes off to investigate the killer's origin, an older Anikin (now played by Hadon Christianson) is assigned as bodyguard, which suits him fine as he has a crush on her. The love story is horrible, too melodramatic to be taken seriosly. Christianson is wooden and just unconvincing. Natalie Portman isn't much better. The Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) story line is much better, with him visiting strange and wonderful planets. He also has some of the best action scenes in the movie, like when he's chasing Jango Fett through an astroid belt. The final battle with all the Jedi fighting the aliens and Trade Federation goons was excellent. The Clone Army in combat was huge scale on par with "Saving Private Ryan" Normandy Invasion, though the violence is cut to where young children can watch it. All in all, it's a very top heavy movie, with the special effects drowning out the story.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: In defense of the movie...
Review: I really get tired of people who say that George Lucas does not know how to do movies anymore. Since when is everyone a film maker? Why does everyone say that everything is wrong with a film when they never actually sit back and really watch it longer then five seconds? I belive that STAR WARS is among the best that the motion picture industry has ever seen. It has a great deal of humanity and depth to it. It's been so good that I think the only place this movie can be shown and liked anymore is on PBS, and by the same general audience that watches PBS and can really get into a good movie and a good story. That's where this movie can be liked and enjoyed now, and not by so-called film makers who spend way too much time on the Internet or play too many video games. I really hate the Internet.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Oh the agony!
Review: Continuing with the slow agaonising death of the Star Wars empire.

This movie was mediore at best. George has bought of on "screw the story, wow them with FX"

Hayden Christensen (Anakin) is by far the worst actor. He is supposed to be Dark, a Jedi on the Edge, the future Dark Lord and all you want to do is give a swirly to this whiner! There is no chemestry between him and Padme. His big scene where he slaughters a sand people camp does not even shock you. He just whines.

I would take Jar Jar over Hayden at this point!

Christopher Lee and Ewan are about the only saving parts of this wannabe film. Padme was ok but not too exciting.

The fight between Yoda and Dooku is intresting but that is about it.

As with the last film, George creates an interesting villian(jango fett) and of course kills him off.

I have extreamly low expectations for the next installment and the sad thing is that I have read that George is talking about pasting a scared up Hayden in the Return of the Jedi.

I now wonder if George even wrote the first three films.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A bad film with a few bright moments
Review: The bad parts of this movie overwhelm the good parts. The worst is the love story: Two mediocre actors reading awkward dialogue in three or four settings. None of the scenes are convincing. One or two make you cringe. Then there's the confusion of the plot, leading to a number of action scenes that aren't necessary. (Did they have to run around on the robot conveyor belt? It looks like a video game.) The actors are stiff because they appear to be reacting to CG creatures. Finally, the story takes the main characters to too many locations. By the end, you wonder which planet they are on and why they're there.

Of course, there are a few good things about the movie. The climax is amazing --- a combination of light saber duels and a science fiction war. (Somehow, Yoda is the center of both of these sequences.) The creatures, spaceships, and locations are wonderfully designed. The colosseum of the insect creatures looks like it was carved out of a hive. The three beasts the heroes fight in that scene are amazing (in their appearance and the way they move), the clone-making aliens look great, and each landscape and vehicle is unique and detailed. Ewan McGregor is also good --- every scene he's in is worth watching, simply because he's such an accomplished actor. It's a treat to see him do an impression of a rain-soaked Alec Guiness while he talks to an alien creature that wasn't even there at the moment his parts were filmed.

In the end, you can't give this movie more than two stars, because so much good will was squandered. Every sequel to a blockbuster has a built-in audience, but Star Wars was always different. The fans wanted to relive the thrill of the first two movies with a return to the saga. But Attack of the Clones is so poorly-made, with so much bad acting and dialogue, if feels like a half-hearted attempt to cash in on the old magic.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: stupid wars
Review: I buoght it literally i put the dang thing in the vcdvcr. And it played for a litle while then all hell broke loose! I heard a whining and a hiss then i seen smoke and flames coming out of the vdr. I tried to eject the dvc. but it shot out acroos the room out an open window and landed on old man jenkins roof his house burned to the ground. I got the fire out on the fdr. When the fire police asked if i seen any thing unusal i said no i been watching movies on my dvt all day !

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Lucas is losing it...
Review: I cannot believe how bad this movie was in comparison to the rest of the films in the series. Hayden Christensen is just a pretty-boy actor they got with NO talent WHATSOEVER. The incredible explosions? The amazing lightsaber battles? The stunning CGI? None of these things make up for how spectacularly bad this movie is.

Keep it together George!

P.S. to Ewan McGregor (awesome actor)and to Christopher Lee (for whom I have the utmost respect): you guys were awesome. To the rest of the cast: no apologies.


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