| There is something so cold and remote about this film that turned me off completely. It's overproduced and badly written, but there's something more than that, something deeper. What it comes down to, I believe, is the action. Star Wars films have always been based around action, and only EMPIRE manages to suceed in producing beliveable emotion. But the action in this film is so detached, there is such an overrun sense of CGI that there is no human element, nothing to grab onto and recognize. And that's what made the original three films, maybe only because of limited technological resources, the films were available for the human responder, you can actually see Mark Hamill hold up the lightsabre and the background behind him is one that is real. That's why the title ATTACK OF THE CLONES is so fitting, it feels like a clone, there's barely anything human about it. Other than that, the romance is shit, Yoda suddenly becomes the king of cool house dueling and well you wish Samuel L Jackson had had a better oppurtunity to do the same. Refreshingly, there is the return of CP30, which is nicely nostalgic but could have been better developed. The truly devastating part of it is that there was such a great oppurtunity to really plant the seed of darkness in Anakin, there are two scenes which are so short but show what could have been if this film had of been thought out a little (or rather a whole lot) better, those scenes entail Anakin walking behind Palpatine and then freaking out over his mothers death. Such an oppurtinity for real dark emotion, lost to crap action and stomach churning romance. Overall, what can you say? A poor effort, a missed oppurtunity and a piece of cinema that will be laughed at for years to come. 4. [This message has been edited by areyoubeingserved (edited 06-19-2002).] |