Latest Star Wars: Not Horrible, But If You Have Anything Better To Do...

I saw the latest installment of George Lucas' life's work today.

I'm not going to go demand two and a half hours of my life back, but I could have missed it and my life would be no less for it.

The film has a marginal plot line, Lucas' absolutely awful dialog, overwhelming special effects, and a surprisingly awful performance by Natalie Portman. Whoever told Hayden Christensen he could act needs to be publicly pilloried. Ewan McGregor stepped through the entire movie like he was expecting a pie in the face, but did a pretty decent acting job despite what he was given to work with. Samuel L. Jackson couldn't overcome the abysmal script. Fortunately for his career, his parts were short. He must have a smart agent. When the best performance in a movie is turned in by a CGI (Yoda), you know the film is in deep trouble.

On the bright side, hopefully Lucas will give up writing and directing and stick to producing.