However, he’s hardly the only problem with this movie. Okay, Jake Lloyd was only 10 years old when he played young Anakin in The Phantom Menace, but it’s genuinely painful watching any scene he’s in. The first prequel Star Wars movie has a lot of the same issues as Attack of the Clones, especially in the CGI department (need I mention Jar Jar Binks?) and the fact that the main actor can’t actually act. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, and Natalie Portman.

Pernilla August and Jake Lloyd in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). The middle movie, Attack of the Clones, tries to bridge the gap between Anakin, the cute, innocent kid in Episode I, and the eventual baddie, Darth Vader, in Episode III, and the fact of the matter is that the writing and Hayden Christensen just weren’t up to the task. We’ve seen it before with other trilogies, and although none of the Star Wars prequel movies are particularly good, the first and the third movies at least knew what they wanted to do. need I go on? There’s so many reasons why Attack of the Clones is one of the worst Star Wars movies, but most of them can be boiled down to the fact that it suffers from the middle movie curse.

The overreliance on CGI sets, the numerous boring senate scenes, the awkward, supposedly ‘romantic’ conversations between Anakin and Padmé. Trust us, it doesn’t get much worse than Attack of the Clones. Let’s get the worst of the Star Wars movies out of the way as quickly as we can. Cast: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, and Ewan McGregor.Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002).

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