6) Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

We’ve already sifted through the prequel shenanigans, but we might as well get the official rankings on record. This is by far the bottom of the barrel in the Star Wars saga. If you told me the entire film was shot in front of a green screen, I’d believe you. It contains the worst acting. The worst dialogue. The worst subplots. It all stinks. The romantic angle has been beaten to death, we all know the story there.

It really goes back to the CGI of it all though. Everything looks so digital and computerized, it rips the human angle right of the movie. That’s part of the reason why the acting is so bad. There’s nothing to act against. While actors are more well-trained to deal with this now, in 2002 it wasn’t yet commonplace. You had Andy Serkis playing Gollum at the time, but the Lord of the Rings trilogy was still on sets. There were actual trees and grass, so we could accept one digital character. Episode I actually balances this a little better. There’s a ton of CGI, but Lucas didn’t go hog wild until this one, where it really got out of control.  The droid factory scene is the pinnacle of why I hate this film.  They created a video game level in the middle a Star Wars movie.  Ugh. And as bad as forcing C3-PO in Episode I was, this movie actually ruined a character for me in Boba Fett.

The Phantom Menace is a bad Star Wars movie, but still an okay film overall.  With this one, there are no qualifiers – it’s a bad movie any way you slice it.

Best Scene: The one moment where everything came together is when Anakin slaughters the Tusken Raiders.  There’s actual acting going on, and I cared.

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