Review of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) by Bernie M — 31 Jan 2015
The wife is out and daughter is doing her own thing, so Jnr and I took the opportunity to move on to Episode II of the saga as we prepare ourselves for The Force Awakens in December.
It's been quite a while since I've seen Attack of the Clones (First time since I got the Blu Ray box set) and I don't feel HD has done it any favours as the pin sharp picture shows up the artificiality of the CGI world we now inhabit.
Generally, cast-wise, the film is solid apart from Hayden Christensen's petulant teenager Anakin. If he'd just been sent to his room or had his Playstation taken off him more often then the path of galactic history may have been completely different!
The love story between Anakin and Padme is necessary and is okay as far as it goes. The political background required to build up to the galactic civil war, yeh,can live with that too.
Yet, when we finally get to see what we really want, which is a lot of Jedi (including Sam Jackson's Mace Windu) going medieval on some droids asses, it's all looking rather dull. No offence to the multivarious Jedi cast members, but most of them barely seem to know how to swing a light sabre. During the time period that gave us Helm's Deep the start of the Clone Wars was such a non-event.
On the bright side we do get Yoda kicking Dooku's proverbial...
It probably gets an extra star because it's a Star Wars film...
*sigh*.
This review of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) was written by Bernie M on 31 Jan 2015.
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones has generally received mixed reviews.
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