Whereas many mocked it when it first got here out, of us now assume Assault of the Clones is the very best film within the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy.
For lots of us, Star Wars: Episode II- Assault of the Clones was a film we have been cautiously optimistic about. The mud had settled on The Phantom Menace by this level, and most of us chalked up the film’s faults to 2 issues – Jar Jar Binks and Anakin Skywalker being a precocious youngster. Within the subsequent movie, Anakin can be a younger man, comparable in age to Mark Hamill when he performed Luke in Star Wars: A New Hope. All of us had excessive hopes that Hayden Christensen’s efficiency can be one of many definitive ones within the saga and that the movie would brilliantly reveal Anakin’s darkish facet and what made him Darth Vader. Nevertheless, it turned out to be a blended bag, with Christensen’s efficiency controversial, George Lucas’s dialogue mocked, and the digital pictures (it was one of many first movies shot digitally) thought-about ruddy. Over twenty years later, following the sequel trilogy, the film was re-assessed, and plenty of assume it stands as the very best movie within the prequel trilogy, because it planted the seeds for the Clone Wars, Ahsoka, and extra.
Notably, the film additionally incorporates the primary combat scenes for old-school Jedi masters Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) and Yoda himself, along with his lightsaber duel with Christopher Lee’s Rely Dooku bringing down the home at each early screening the movie had again in 2002. Whereas many mocked the dialogue and the instances Hayden Christensen’s eyes appeared to go useless each time he checked out a CGI character, it’s a film that holds up higher than you assume and has some basic moments. On this instalment of Star Wars Revisited, we dig into the second film in Lucas’s epic prequel trilogy and see the way it holds up these days.
This video is written by Eric Walkuski, narrated by Shawn Knippelberg, and edited by Adam Walton. Do you assume Assault of the Clones holds up? Tell us within the feedback!