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Star Wars. Episode II: Attack of the Clones

2002

George Lucas

Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Ian McDiarmid ...

6.3

107,876

Sci-Fi. Adventure In the second installment of the Star Wars series, EPISODE II--ATTACK OF THE CLONES, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is now a teenage Jedi apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). Together they must protect Senator Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) from a militant group of political activists that is trying to assassinate her. This group is led by the evil Count Dooku (Christopher Lee). Among other troubles, Anakin faces some ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"While 'Attack of the Clones' is many things -- a two-hour-and-12-minute action-figure commercial, a demo reel heralding the latest advances in digital filmmaking, a chance for gifted actors to be handsomely paid for delivering the worst line readings of their careers -- it is not really much of a movie at all, if by movie you mean a work of visual storytelling about the dramatic actions of a group of interesting characters."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"George Lucas has reached deep into the trove of his self-generated mythological world to produce a grand entertainment that offers a satisfying balance among the series' epic, narrative, technological and emotional qualities."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It is not what's there on the screen that disappoints me, but what's not there (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"An exhilarating two hours of serious fun."	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"It's too long, it's too dull, it's too lame."	NEG
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Lucas' gift for animating the inanimate turns out to be paralleled by a tendency to deaden what should be completely alive"	NEG
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"No screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of 'Clones' last 45 minutes."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The Force against dullness is finally goosing George Lucas. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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