Okay, so I am not as enamoured with this film as I might have been when I was in my early twenties, or out of my gourd on stimulating drugs, but that's just the point. I am not making that up - the sequence in which our Jedi heroes pursue Zam Wesell ( Leeanna Walsman) was so blurry that I thought I was hypoglycaemic when I saw it, ate too many sweets as a result, and spent much of the rest of the film urinating into a cardboard cup. The result is that the theatrical exhibition outside of poky little cineplexes using anything other than Texas Instruments' DLP projectors looked like crap, to be frank. Unfortunately, this process has the same resolution as HDTV (1080), with the only difference being that it is progressive rather than interlaced - it is unfortunate because thirty-five millimeter film is rated at approximately 4000 pixels. One of the big bragging points about Attack Of The Clones is that it is the first feature film to be shot using an entirely digital process, in this case a High Definition process called CineAlta. How it all works out is something I will leave for the viewer to find out.ĭirector George Lucas is quite honestly off in la-la land, as I don't think he quite realises that the audience is sick of stilted dialogue, and more importantly in this case, bad photography. Eventually, Obi-Wan follows Jango and his cloned son, Boba ( Daniel Logan), to the planet Geonosis, where the separatists are preparing for war. More importantly, he meets the bounty hunter that is being used as a template to create this clone army, Jango Fett ( Temuera Morrison), who just happens to be the same assassin behind the attempts on Padmé's life. He is told by the powers that be on Kamino that the clones are being created at the behest of a Jedi Master who, oddly enough, has been dead for most of the past decade. While these two stumble their way through one of the most awkward attempts at romance I have seen in a film, Obi-Wan discovers an army comprised of clones on the planet Kamino. While Obi-Wan investigates the assassination attempts, Anakin accompanies the Senator back to her homeworld, Naboo. Convinced that Dooku is behind the attempt, Padmé is determined to continue appearing in the Senate and speaking her mind, but shortly after Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor) and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker ( Hayden Christensen) are appointed her bodyguards, the assassins make another attempt. Senator Padmé Amidala ( Natalie Portman) is one of the voices crying out against the creation of the army, and the film begins with an attempt upon her life by the opposing factions. One faction is intent on creating an army, convinced that the separatists will do the same and declare war upon them, while others believe that a more pacifist solution is in order.
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A movement of separatists, led by the mysterious Count Dooku ( Christopher Lee) has declared their intentions to leave the Republic, and debate is raging in the Senate as to how to respond. The story takes place about ten years after the previous episode, and things have not improved at all within the Galactic Republic - they have gotten worse, if anything. Or maybe it is because it commits the ultimate sin in my eyes, making promises of revealing much-debated points in its own mythology, and then delivering precisely nothing, in true X-Files style. So what does Attack Of The Clones do to sour the experience of both itself and the previous instalment in the series? In a nutshell, it makes it quite obvious that George Lucas has so far taken in excess of 270 minutes to say what Black Sabbath said in less than six with a song called Iron Man. In spite of the fact that the previous episode gave most viewers a headache with all the location changes, it was a rollicking good time enjoyed by all at the premiere.
Oh sure, it is far from a perfect film, but George Lucas obviously doesn't give a rat's about things like Oscars or critical praise - he would rather entertain his audience. If that sounds offensive to you, then I recommend you stop reading now, because some of the things that I have to say about the recent Star Wars films are not going to be pretty.Īt times, I felt as if I was the only one who enjoyed The Phantom Menace and hadn't jumped on the Lucas-bashing bandwagon that had grown up around it.
I've been asked a number of times why I didn't review the DVD-Video of Attack Of The Clones, and here it is: I decided early on in the year that I would rather spend my October in Queensland, helping my father celebrate his fiftieth birthday, than reviewing a disc. If you create a user account, you can add your own review of this DVDĮnglish Audio Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s) Star Wars-Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
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