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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones review

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago on 28 August 2023 12:37

ilkinden daha güzel anakin büyümüş sondaki klon savaşı güzeldi baya count dooku savaşıda iyiydi baya


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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones review

Posted : 4 years, 1 month ago on 22 March 2020 06:13

Protagonistas unidimensionales luchando contra malos unidimensionales en una película con más exposición de basura innecesaria y políticas que no vienen al caso, mientras se muestra una relación amorosa aburrida con diálogos incoherentes y que insultan la inteligencia.
Al igual que la película anterior, los visuales tienen un CGI intrusivo y ahora se ve de la patada por lo anticuado que resulta.
Pero al menos esta, a diferencia de la anterior tiene más escenas de acción por lo que es más entretenida. Y sí, puedo admitir que dichas escenas de acción son entretenidas de ver, pero prácticamente todo lo demás en el filme es realmente basura y en términos generales esto es un tedio de ver, al igual que es una película extremadamente vacía.
La mitad son escenas de acción entretenidas (más no visualmente buenas por el CGI antes mencionado) y la otra mitad es el desarrollo de una trama romántica que no parece venir al caso, en donde como ya mencioné hay diálogos sumamente incoherentes y en general la trama romántica es aburrida a más no poder y un despropósito al estar carente de todo significado. No quiero pensar cuanto presupuesto echaron en la escena en que Anakin corta una manzana con sus poderes.
Dicho esto, lo único positivo del filme y lo que me hace no darle un 1/10 es el personaje de Anakin. No es excelente y no solo tiene diálogos tontos, si no que a parte hay veces en las que actúa como un robot sin alma. Pero este personaje es el único que puedo considerar bueno de la película, al, de hecho, tener cierto desarrollo a lo largo de esta y cierto conflicto que considero al menos decente. Se comprende por qué Anakin hace lo que hace en el filme y también se comprende el por qué se volvería malo posteriormente, con los sucesos de este filme y el próximo. De nuevo, no es excelente, pero me parece que el personaje tiene un buen desarrollo dentro de lo que cabe.
Todo lo demás, auténtica basura, ni siquiera es una película entretenida por lo que ya mencioné de la trama romántica y los diálogos políticos. Las escenas de acción sí son entretenidas, pero ni siquiera son buenas y solo se basan en efectitos intrusivos para ver a quien sorprenden.
Terrible filme.


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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones review

Posted : 6 years, 5 months ago on 10 December 2017 06:49

20 Vistas para star wars III Review
20 Views For Star wars III

first the only interesting thing in history
wants to know what will happen in the next Movie

I still do not think it's good
good because had no spark of the first

in characters and acting are still just as normal that I could not even think of its quality

look in a few words
I do not find too many points to this film
but even so this is the worst in the series

still that's enough to see the III

in form is a mediocre movie

but not for 2/10
for me is 5/10

primero lo único interesante es la historia
da cosas interesantes
pero la historia no creo que sea buena
bueno porque no tenía chispa de la primera

en los personajes y la actuación siguen siendo tan normales que nisiquiera podía pensar algo que decir

mira en pocas palabras
No encuentro demasiados puntos para esta película
pero aun así este es el peor de la serie

Todavía eso es suficiente para ver el III

  en forma es una película mediocre

pero no para mi no es terrible
para mí es 5/10










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An average movie

Posted : 8 years, 10 months ago on 17 June 2015 09:11

Back then and still today, many have criticized 'The Phantom Menace' but, in my opinion, it is with this movie that Georges Lucas really dropped the ball as it is by far the weakest installment in this franchise. Basically, it is a really underwhelming bridge between episode I and episode III and Lucas managed to mess up pretty much everything here. Indeed, once again you had a rather murky and boring political intrigue but, above all, you had one of the weakest romances I have ever seen. Many blamed Hayden Christensen for this massive failure and his career never really recovered from the blow but I don't think it was entirely his fault. Indeed, his character who was supposed to be the most fascinating character in this mythology was reduced to some arrogant and pitiful emo teenager. The fact that the dialogues were really pathetic didn’t help either. At least, I have to admit it, the whole thing looked pretty amazing and the CGI version of Yoda was better than I remembered and an improvement on the disappointing puppet they used in the previous installment. Even so, to use him for a light-saber fight was just a huge mistake as it was completely out of character. I shouldn't forget to mention also that the backstory for Boba Fett was another major letdown. Anyway, to conclude, even though the whole thing remains watchable, it was still a terrible borefest to behold.


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Weakest Star Wars film. It's just entertaining.

Posted : 13 years, 7 months ago on 13 October 2010 05:32

Like with The Phantom Menace, I loved this a lot as a child but as I was growing up, I could see what most of the flaws were. Admittedly, Attack Of The Clones is a lot of fun and is perhaps a Star Wars film just for entertainment. I would perhaps say that this as well as Episode I is in the Star Wars franchise like Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets are in the Harry Potter franchise: just pieces of entertainment with no crucial events going on that effects the whole series. Yes, they all need to be entertaining but at the end of the day, because there needed to be so many crucial events from all three prequels, we only see all those events occur, really, in Revenge Of The Sith.


I mean, now the more I watch Attack Of The Clones, the easier I can see what the flaws are and what could have been done to improve. Well, the most obvious is the soppy and almost unconvincing love story between Anakin and Padmé. Star Wars is meant to be full of adventure, not like a soap opera! I mean, action-romance-action-romance-action! Make your mind up! It is one or the other, not both. The acting was weak from most of the actors involved in this film. Also, why does Yoda look so fake in this one?! I mean, if Yoda is gonna be in CGI, at least make him look real! If not, try and make him just like in the originals. I mean, that is the main weakness the prequels have: they are overloaded with CGI effects. I mean, yeah I know that times have changed as have effects but at the end of the day, it is a prequel to a very successful franchise and there did need to be some originality. I think the only originality that Attack Of The Clones had in comparison to Episode IV, V and VI is the music!


Attack Of The Clones is set 10 years after The Phantom Menace where Anakin is a grown man now not a little kid but still has his strong crush on Padmé. Padmé is now a senator in the Republic and her life is at risk due to assassination attempts by the Trade Federation so the Jedi Council assign Anakin Skywalker to protect her on her home planet of Naboo and there they slowly fall in love and share a forbidden romance. Obi-Wan, on the other hand, is tracking down a bounty hunter who attempted to assassinate Senator Amidala which leads him to the Mars-like planet of Geonosis and the Clone War begins.


I have always been a strong admirer of Ewan McGregor and he is one of the best living actors but his performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi in this one was mediocre. I mean, he wasn't involved THAT much in The Phantom Menace but he was a bit more this time but his performance wasn't really any better. I think perhaps because of the cheesy script made his performance even worse. Hayden Christensen was simply the wrong actor to have been chosen to play Anakin Skywalker in the second prequel! I could probably give George Lucas a list of about 30 actors who could have played Anakin better and made him more realistic. I think James Franco would have been the best option because he would have made Anakin an angry individual, a hero and a man with feelings. Hayden just made him like a really empty character and I can't believe that is Darth Vader but younger! Natalie Portman was surprisingly bad as Padmé. I mean, I could hardly feel any emotion for Padmé at all; what with the assassination attempts or the love she has for Anakin.


Seriously, George Lucas, what were you trying to achieve with Attack Of The Clones? I mean, yeah you want Anakin's turn to the dark side to be tragic, not soppy romance! Maybe go a bit mad after a close one died (like his mother or a Jedi colleague or something) and that would have made it even more interesting. The screenplay was pretty damn cheesy most of the time especially in the Anakin and Padmé scene where Anakin was expressing his feelings towards Padmé and how a relationship between them would work but as I said, Star Wars is a series of adventure and action, not romance! I mean, fair enough with Revenge Of The Sith because it all comes down to that film seeing as that was part of the story. There were just conversations, no romance but did feature heartbreak which is how Obi-Wan and Yoda felt about Anakin's betrayal and the fact that the Jedi were going extinct except those two. George Lucas shouldn't have been director, should have gone to someone else who would be awesome at directing it (Episode V and Episode VI weren't directed by George Lucas) and should just stick to writing but not make them cheesy!


Overall, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones is a disappointing prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy that is just entertainment for the action and effects but crap regarding story, acting, directing and writing so it makes it about average. Thank God that Revenge Of The Sith showed us what George Lucas really is capable of doing. Nothing major happened in Attack Of The Clones that affects the originals when we needed it to build up to Episode III aka the climax film but was just an entertainment Star Wars film. So it is neither good nor bad.


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Refuses to come alive

Posted : 16 years ago on 27 April 2008 06:43

"Victory? Victory you say? Master Obi-Wan, not victory. The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun the Clone War has."

2002's Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones is arguably the best of George Lucas' Star Wars prequel trilogy, though that is still incredibly faint praise. Objectively, this is not a good movie by any stretch, as it suffers from tedious storytelling, dismal dialogue and half-hearted acting, but at least it's colourful and action-packed enough to relieve boredom at times. Still, the limited entertainment value is not enough to salvage the overlong Episode II, which is also marred by inconsistent digital effects; oftentimes, the movie looks too artificial and cartoonish, lacking the wondrous realism and believability of the original Star Wars trilogy. Without any heart or compelling drama, this particular Star Wars adventure absolutely refuses to come alive in any substantial way.


Ten years after the events of The Phantom Menace, Senator Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) is under threat of assassination. Voicing her concerns to Jedi Master Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson), the council assigns Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) to serve as Padme's bodyguard. No longer a child, Anakin has grown in his Jedi training since he last saw Padme, having spent the last decade under the instruction of Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). After another attempt on Padme's life, Obi-Wan begins investigating, with the evidence eventually leading him to the planet Kamino, where an enormous army of clones is being bred. Anakin, meanwhile, accompanies Padme back to her home planet of Naboo, where his feelings for the senator begin to flourish. In addition to this, Anakin is haunted by nightmares concerning his mother (Pernilla August) on Tatooine, and becomes determined to set her free. And there's also some nonsense about Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) being given autonomous control, and a shady Sith known as Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) who's lurking behind the curtain.

Astonishingly, Lucas enlisted third party help during the writing process, penning the screenplay with Young Indiana Jones veteran Jonathan Hales. Alas, the writing is nevertheless as terrible as ever, with Lucas demonstrating that he has no idea how to create a scintillating or even a remotely believable romance. Anakin and Padme's relationship is impossible to become invested in, with Anakin mostly acting like a creepy stalker rather than a romantic dreamboat. The pair are thrown together simply because reasons, with little internal logic to support the plot point, and does anybody else find it nauseating that Padme keeps wearing provocative clothing whilst rejecting all of Anakin's advances? Furthermore, just as The Phantom Menace spent too much time on tedious political machinations, Attack of the Clones is overstuffed with chatter and extended exposition, yet the dialogue is treated like homework, leading to severe pacing issues. There is no charm or wit to the screenplay, and it's hard to recall a single line of memorable dialogue beyond the horrendously cheesy stuff that you remember for all the wrong reasons. When done right, politics can be a riveting subject matter in a motion picture, but it feels obligatory here, with Lucas clearly more interested in flashy visuals and battles.


Compared to its immediate predecessor, Attack of the Clones is a bit darker in tone, with a few sequences that children might find a bit intense. But what's still missing from these prequels is the pep, humanity, emotion and personal themes of the original trilogy. Lucas does try to go to a deeper place, granted, but lacks the talent to pull it off correctly. At least the infamous Jar Jar Binks (Ahmed Best) is minimised, though his brief appearance is still more than we should ever have to endure. Furthermore, Attack of the Clones suffers from another major flaw that brought down The Phantom Menace: illogical, forced references to the original Star Wars trilogy. In this case, the biggest offender is bringing in Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison), revealing that fan favourite Boba Fett (Daniel Logan) is a clone, and an army of soldiers has been created from Jango's genome. It's not satisfying, and with Boba's arc ultimately leading nowhere, the whole subplot feels like dead weight, not to mention an incredible coincidence. Worse, seeing Boba as a child takes away a degree of his badassery. It's bad enough that Darth Vader is sullied through Anakin's portrayal throughout this trilogy, but Boba as well? Good lord.

People still give Lucas way too much credit for the original Star Wars trilogy, forgetting the valuable contributions from the likes of producer Gary Kurtz, as well as the editorial input from Lucas' ex-wife Marcia. Kurtz in particular was instrumental in making sure the first film didn't suck, while The Empire Strikes Back had the benefit of director Irvin Kershner and writer Lawrence Kasdan. But Lucas eventually liberated himself from the scrutiny and creative input of others who do not always agree with him, with the prequel trilogy representing Lucas' preferred, undiluted vision of Star Wars... And it's awful. Attack of the Clones was one of the first motion pictures to be lensed digitally, with Lucas wanting to move away from celluloid and practical effects. Truth be told, the picture has not aged well due to this, with a glossy presentation overstuffed with computer-generated imagery creating a hopelessly artificial image. Nothing looks real, with the sterile imagery in dire need of grit and a lived-in disposition. Still, at least the movie is stuffed with colourful action scenes which makes it more bearable. In particular, seeing Yoda finally unleash his Jedi prowess and engage in a lightsaber duel is insanely fun.


Jake Lloyd did not win over fans with his portrayal of Anakin Skywalker, but Lucas somehow managed to choose an even worse thespian to replace him. Christensen is fucking terrible, and even that is an understatement; he's an unconvincing romantic lead, his dramatic acting could not be more forced, and he recites dialogue as if reading from cue cards. One supposes there is only so much one can do with the terrible material, though, as Anakin is turned into a petulant, spoiled little snot without much in the way of depth. Obi-Wan and Anakin were supposedly good friends, but you would never know it judging from this movie. McGregor, meanwhile, again tries his best to inject some semblance of life into Obi-Wan, but he's hamstrung by wooden dialogue. Likewise, Portman shows no spark at all, while Jackson was apparently asleep during filming. The only actor who has any sort of success is Christopher Lee, though that's almost by default since Lee is good in anything.

As with The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones received a reluctant pass from movie-goers upon its release in 2002, but age has not been kind to this particular instalment in the Star Wars franchise, with its dated CGI and video game logic. This is simply a cold, cold flick all the way through to its core, and while it tries to develop a romance and attempts emotion, it can never successfully pull us into its universe or completely involve us with its characters. It flirts with emotional resonance, but Lucas fails to create a journey of any real substance. Attack of the Clones may be entertaining in fits and starts, but it's rarely enthralling and never affecting - it's a lifeless, mechanical fantasy action movie.

4.6/10


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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones review

Posted : 17 years, 3 months ago on 11 February 2007 04:47

Onto a trough but still an interesting part of the saga. Attack of the Clones is simply a detective/romance story turned into a war. Everything about it feeds toward the central goal of Palpatine’s ultimate plan.

It's a gap like Empire but not worthy of the same recognition.

We also get to see Yoda in action which has been a wish of all fans since Empire’s release. I’m so stuck for words now, it’s unbelievable!

The Battle for Geonosis saved this film from the depths. The final circle of Jedi is just magnificent.


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