I find Attack of the Clones to be a very confused movie. It has uninteresting plots that lead to dead ends, actors again not doing their job, and an unnecessary focus on politics. Long story short, it's not very good.
First of all, the plot of this movie is all over the place. We start out surprisingly strong with the Senator Padme's ship blowing up and almost killing here and then an older Padawan Anakin and his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, being called to her for protection. For a first scene, the film does a good job of setting up the relationship between a whole bunch of characters. I particularly like the 'elevator scene' where we hear some casual banter between Obi-Wan and Anakin. Though the acting coming from Anakin is forced as always, it makes these two characters' relationship seem like very brotherly one. After this interesting dialogue, however, Anakin becomes a complaining brat for the rest of the movie. Padme doesn't help his cause either as she is so void of emotion that they make the perfect robot couple for the entire movie. I really think that the film should've focused more on the brotherly relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan instead of a ridiculously shoe-horned love story so in the third movie we could have been actually affected by Anakin turning evil.
Another thing this movie does wrong is its use of villains. Episode II doesn't get that a villain doesn't just need to be a foil for the main character physically but also emotionally as well. This is why Darth Vader is a great villain for Luke because we know that Vader is his father so whenever they finally have their final battle it's as tense as ever. Count Dooku in Episode II is a useless villain. They do build him up a little bit in the first half by talking about him only in mystery but it doesn't work unless we get to know his perspective of the situation. If we even at least saw Count Dooku in the first half than This problem wouldn't be so plain to see but none of the characters say his name or his relationship to the dark side and the Sith until halfway through the film. I think that Episode I's Darth Maul had a much better build up as he was first seen sneak-attacking Qui-Gon than fleeing which left you with a bit of mystery at his character. Count Dooku's mystery is just there for the sake of BEING mysterious. There is no depth to it.
One thing I do have to give this movie credit for is its use of large, vast landscapes. Places like Naboo, Coruscant, and Genosis are really just fun to look at and point out all of the little details that the landscape designers gave these worlds. That is probably the only good thing about this movie. It looks good. The story, characters, and villains are all bland. The whole movie, just like Episode I, doesn't need to exist in the state that it's in.
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is bland and underdeveloped.
There are things that are really good in this movie like the landscapes and the relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan but overall it is just useless. There is, however, a way that it could've been good.
If it had a better writer... like this guy ---> https://goo.gl/ZkWYvt
Belated Media does a great job of making a story that would have actually been interesting for Episode II.
First of all, the plot of this movie is all over the place. We start out surprisingly strong with the Senator Padme's ship blowing up and almost killing here and then an older Padawan Anakin and his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, being called to her for protection. For a first scene, the film does a good job of setting up the relationship between a whole bunch of characters. I particularly like the 'elevator scene' where we hear some casual banter between Obi-Wan and Anakin. Though the acting coming from Anakin is forced as always, it makes these two characters' relationship seem like very brotherly one. After this interesting dialogue, however, Anakin becomes a complaining brat for the rest of the movie. Padme doesn't help his cause either as she is so void of emotion that they make the perfect robot couple for the entire movie. I really think that the film should've focused more on the brotherly relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan instead of a ridiculously shoe-horned love story so in the third movie we could have been actually affected by Anakin turning evil.
Another thing this movie does wrong is its use of villains. Episode II doesn't get that a villain doesn't just need to be a foil for the main character physically but also emotionally as well. This is why Darth Vader is a great villain for Luke because we know that Vader is his father so whenever they finally have their final battle it's as tense as ever. Count Dooku in Episode II is a useless villain. They do build him up a little bit in the first half by talking about him only in mystery but it doesn't work unless we get to know his perspective of the situation. If we even at least saw Count Dooku in the first half than This problem wouldn't be so plain to see but none of the characters say his name or his relationship to the dark side and the Sith until halfway through the film. I think that Episode I's Darth Maul had a much better build up as he was first seen sneak-attacking Qui-Gon than fleeing which left you with a bit of mystery at his character. Count Dooku's mystery is just there for the sake of BEING mysterious. There is no depth to it.
One thing I do have to give this movie credit for is its use of large, vast landscapes. Places like Naboo, Coruscant, and Genosis are really just fun to look at and point out all of the little details that the landscape designers gave these worlds. That is probably the only good thing about this movie. It looks good. The story, characters, and villains are all bland. The whole movie, just like Episode I, doesn't need to exist in the state that it's in.
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is bland and underdeveloped.
There are things that are really good in this movie like the landscapes and the relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan but overall it is just useless. There is, however, a way that it could've been good.
If it had a better writer... like this guy ---> https://goo.gl/ZkWYvt
Belated Media does a great job of making a story that would have actually been interesting for Episode II.
