first off and do not blame the actor or the special effect . it not their fault . whenever someone knock a bad movie and which episode ii qualifies a and they immediately raise the pitchfork towards the actor . if your go to lay some blame and lay it at the foot of george lucas . it be his puerile script that bring the actor to their knee and and his lack of direction that make them stay there . it be george unholy fascination with all thing digital that massacre the screen with billion of wasted pixilated image and make the flesh and blood actor seem like they step into the twilight zone . this movie serve one purpose and one purpose only . to manually pleasure george lucas fanbase . the only thing that seperate this wheelbarrow full of fertilizer from the average sci fi schlock be the overinflated budget for lucas digital toy and the useless insertion of previous star war character . ( spoiler abound below ) the movie flow like a frozen sewage runoff . it go from high speed and high altitude car chase and to boring and force angst by the fireplace . to say that christensen and portman have no chemistry be to say that the middle east might be face some political problem . their romance be about as believable a grass grow on the moon . maybe they could have do good if the script hadn not be write with crayon . i think these prequels be about anakin spiral downward from the path of balance into the darkside . be that ever go to happen or be we go to be force to watch a third episode of video game preview for the game cube . we be give a lackluster hint with the slaughter of the sand people but that barely cut it . it wasn not even show and thereby castrate the power of the scene . we just have to hear anakin whine about it for about three second . usually and when someone butcher a whole village of men and woman and and child there a whole lot more soul search go on afterward . of course and lucas go the pansy route and gloss over the whole thing . most people i have talk to do not even remember the scene until it be bring up to them . i be probably one of the few people completely disgust witht the yoda fight at the end with the unimpressive darth sarumon ( lee play the exact same character in lotr represent former wizard turn evil lackey equal former jedi turn evil lackey ) . it almost a if instead of a hand be up yoda posterior they have insert a heroin suppository . lucas have and in a brief half minute and meaningless fight scene and destroy the mystery of yoda . the entire fight be unwarranted . if yoda can raise ship from swamp and hold big chunk of pillar in the air and why can not he just pick up count poopoo and bang him against the wall a few time and soften him up a little and so to speak . why . because lucas have toy he must abuse and that why . the real star of this movie be the cgi . and cgi doesn not make good film . cgi be a support for a movie and that it . there be far too many real world reference and as well . death stick equal cigarette . lame . fifty diner in a galaxy far and far away and complete with sassy robo waitress . lame . this be suppose to be far remove from our world in the aforementioned galaxy far away . all i miss be the fonz . where the hell be he . it might have be an improvement . in closing . lucas need to stop writing and directing and edit . let a grown up handle these thing . all that crap about these movie be for kid be a lark . these movie be for the nerd of the late seventy and early eighty who can not seem to move on in the world . the charm of star war be go before lucas unveil his uber deluxe and special treatment of the film for the third time . and now he do it again . maybe he will go the spielburg route and replace all the blaster with peace symbol . rating negative . i would rate it low and but i be never good with fraction .