Attack of the Clones is great, mostly for the way it makes the original three episodes of writer-director George Lucas’ ongoing space sage even greater. A prequel full of ominous foreshadowing and detailed background, Clones has the ingenious special effects and dazzling action to work brilliantly as a popcorn movie, while its resonance in relation to the other films in the series bring to mind the stanza of an epic poem.
