Fall of the Jedi: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

Seamless editing and a solid option of viewing AotC in a more straightforward manner. While most of the scenes are successfully trimmed for pacing, the edit overall maintains the film's original structure.

AV quality is consistent with the source, but there are better-looking edits in comparison by now. Also, I found the custom burnt-in alien subtitles to be a bit distracting, I must add.

Concerning the whole of the edited trilogy, the overarching downplay of Vader's identity and direct nods to his heritage in the OT is subtle but well done, and something I wish I'd seen in other edits. As for this episode per se, props for completely excising Yoda and Dooku's fight. While other editors will keep only the Force duel, I think is for the best that we don't see Force lightning wielded by anyone other than The Emperor, as a symbol of his unlimited wickedness; and I always thought that Yoda to the rescue makes Obi and Anakin look incredibly incompetent.

My gripes, however, lie in how most of the visuals are left intact, even in the most edited sequences. Bad digital doubles and creatures are a big turnoff for me, and unfortunately they remain in the spots I resent the most (the Jango v. Obi, for instance). Obviously the source is thoroughly plagued by it, but there are other options that manage to satisfyingly tone it down. That's for personal enjoyment, however, and I shall not dispute it since it's not an specific goal of the edit.

Thank you Q2 for the edit and for generously sharing it!

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Ok, before people get mad at me for not recommending this edit, I want you all to know that I hate attack of the clones with a passion, to me it is the worst disgrace to star wars out there in canon, that is saying a lot because I like you also hate Jar Jar, the fact that this movie is shit is not the editor's fault, it's George's. The editor does not have the ability to improve cringe-worthy special effects without cutting a whole scene, the editor does not have the ability to add dialogue or heavily modify it. The editor has to work with what he's got and this is it.

Now that that's out of the way I must say the visual and audio editing is flawless, I never saw or heard of anything that was bad and I never was taken out of the "experience" by editing flaws, long story short, flawless.

The narrative is as good as it's going to get with AOTC, the mystery behind the clones is actually intriguing and infinitely better than the original. Most of the cuts were completely logical and worked, this series does bug me partially though because of the removal of R2 and 3PO which sort of makes sense BUT that's what is special about this trilogy, if you hate that idea then just don't watch it. The only thing that should have been cut as well was the arena scene. I know it would be hard to pull off but just don't have the monsters fully attacking yet when the clones and Jedi show up and then shorten the whole thing down. Anyway, you did fine based on the source material (I also liked the incorporated deleted scenes)

So overall, it's an improvement BUT in my opinion, episode 2 is a lost cause anyway.