Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack Of The Clones Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Much to learn, you still have.

After a slightly disappointing but still good Episode I George Lucas strikes back in a way I couldn't possibly have imagined! Same as all the Star wars movies, this film is full with unforgettable brilliant characters and amazing events. The action is simply superb and something you've never seen before.

This episode is the next best thing to The Empire Strikes Back. The Republic is shattering before the eyes of the politicians and the Jedi, thanks to the manipulations of Chancellor Palpatine and his apprentice Count Dooku. This movie has it all: numerous mythological and religious references, breathtaking scenery, and political intrigue. Yoda and Mace Windu demonstrate their superior lightsaber prowess. Anakin's moments of rage are chilling. The Yoda/Dooku duel, hilarious. The ending scene with Palpatine on a terrace overlooking his vast Empire to be is one of the most powerful moments ever to grace a cinema screen.

Simply brilliant

Clone Wars

The second prequal of Star Wars saga firmly establishes the whole series as the story of Anakin Skywalker. Moving the story on from The Phantom Menace Anakin has now grown up ( although Kenobi and Padme seem to have stayed the same age ). Now we have a new hero but one who is fatally flawed from the start. In fact one of the problems of these prequals is its hard to tell who the main characters are supposed to be, as there are none you feel much sympathy for. Ewan McGregors Obi Wan Kenobi spends much of this movie off investigating on his own, while Anakin romances a girl who is probably old enough to have babysat for him as a child. All the time though he pouts and broods and eventually succumbs to his darker side as we all know he must.

I'm not sure why but George Lucas seems to think we will be surprised by Anakins fall from grace just as he thinks we do not know the true identity of Darth Sideous ( someone who has to wear a hood and talk in an evil voice in any hologram recording ).

This is not quite as bad a movie as The Phantom Menace but fans of the original films will still be dissapointed. Once again action and special effects sequences pad out a very thin plot and the characters are shallow and unlikeable. The acting is really atrocious in places and the dialogue laughable.

We now have entire battles of computer generated good guys against computer generated bad guys, so that in places the movie looks and feels like a computer game. Missing the point completely the wise, Ghandi-like Yoda decides that well, maybe wars do make one great, and with the aid of CGI starts to bounce around and kick butt. Christopher Lee dons his Dracula cape once more to play an unconvincing villian and Lucas tries to appeal to the older audience by throwing in Boba Fetts dad.

Once again its all a bit of a mess. Aimed at the younger audience with no thought to having any deeper content than a Saturday morning cartoon. Its nice to see the jedi in their full glory but it does not make up for a film so shallow it will be forgotten in a matter of months.