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I saw this film on one of the Sky Movie channels last night. I missed the beginning and just happened to flick to this channel as there was nothing else on.

So, I can't comment on whether the film is slow to start or not, because I started watching at around 20 minutes in. This is just the sort of film I like to watch. Made to be as real as possible (it's obviously fake, BTW, not in the sense that it LOOKS fake, but had it been real, would it really be aired on national television? I don't think so! Oh, and it's got the actors names at the end of the film!). Darkened hallways, realistic portrayal of absolute terror by the cast, SOME decent special effects, etc... Great stuff.

However, it does start to ruin the film when the aliens make their full appearance (as I said, I missed the beginning of the film, so I don't know how much you see of the first encounter). They look fake, although I like the way the camera goes all fuzzy when they are nearby - in a way, it tries to mask the Dr. Who costumes. I've always said, these things work best when you never fully see what is scaring the cast - just the glimpse from the corner of the eye, or as it disappears out of sight or something.

All in all, I'd give this film 9/10. I liked the BWP film (first viewing only). This one was longer, and was generally more chilling than BWP. One problem - I didn't really seem to care whether the cast survived or not. And the kid was just plain annoying.

Maybe it's just that I am one of the ones who grew up with Star Wars (I still remember going to see ROTJ when I was 6 years old), but this film was a HUGE disappointment.

There was so much hype surrounding it when it was released, and I'd heard that it was not much good, but I finally got the chance to see it the other day (just had Sky Digital installed).

It wasn't ALL bad. It had some pretty decent moments. But on the whole it was pretty dire. What can I say that hasn't already been said? Not much.

Jar Jar Binks. What's with that then? Has Lucas gone insane or something? You can see where he was going with it - trying to make the film more acceptable to children (I didn't really understand the original trilogy until I was about 10-11 years old), but in doing so, he's alienated the adult community like myself who could relate the events of the film to the original three. Binks is a BIG failure, as I'm sure tha majority of people agree. If Lucas doesn't leave the character out of Ep 2, he might as well not bother with Ep 3!

Plot inconsistencies. Not too many that I can think of. The big one being that in 4/5/6, Kenobi was supposedly trained by Yoda. In 1, he's been trained by Qui-Gon Jinn.

To sum up, this is fine as a kids film, but if you're one of the original Star Wars fans, you won't find much satisfaction here.

One last point: "Attack of the Clones"??? Yup, Lucas has gone insane.

I saw this film on DVD last night. In short, I thought it was pretty good, but not exactly original. The basic plot has been done many times before (e.g. Alien/Aliens). It had a number of good points. The special effects were pretty good, even though it is apparent that the CGI animators STILL haven't quite got the hang of colouring and lighting - some of the creatures look out of place due to the mismatch of colouring.

It also had a few technical flaws, such as the double-ringed gas-giant planet (which I'm sure is not possible), and also the fact that the double-eclipse to block the light from both light-sources would be unlikely to occur every 22 years - it would happen on a much larger time scale.

Aside from these technical flaws, though, it was a moderately scary film, although I have seen much worse.

In all, I'd give it 7/10.