Quote Originally Posted by HalfTangible View Post
Hayden Christensen's actually a good actor, it's just the dialogue and direction that suck. Look at any scene where he doesn't have to talk and he looks like a badass. Also, compare his dialogue with Luke's in RotJ and you'll notice they both sound heartless and cold.
In the words of Joe Hokage from Naruto: The Abridged Series or whatever while he was watching Moulin Rouge, "Make me Cry, Ewan MacGregor."

Also, he's mostly just a pouty teenager who is already evil in the second movie rather than a badass, and I say this as someone who was quite the pouty teenager and was, in fact, a pouty, emo teenager creature when Attack of the Clones came out.