Film: Star Wars Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
Director: George Lucas
Imdb User Rating: 6.3/10
Premise: Two Jedi knights, Qui-Gon Jinn and a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, along with a Naboo outcast, named Jar-Jar Binks, must help Queen Padmé save her world from greedy trade executives, and along the way, they discover a young boy, named Anakin Skywalker, who has the potential to be a powerful Jedi himself. Written by Kenneth Chisholm
Blog review: Everyone is a fan of star wars according to the box office receipts but after this movie came out i think most fan boys wanted to be stuck in 1977-1983, when the first 3 or episode IV,V, VI. This movie is supposed to set up the rest of the saga for all the future things to come. We get introduced to a young Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn and how the Jedi race will need to continue. George Lucas spent years trying to release the movie, the story line was thin at best. we were also introduced to Darth Maul, how the Senator was plotting to take over. All very important plot threads if we gave a crap. Anakin is set up on path that puts him in a race, snooze. Then we have our favorite character jar Jar Binks, I think this review is late to lay into jar Jar because we all know he was dumb. The end fight scene with Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi Wan and Darth Maul is special, the scenes evokes all the classic Star Wars scenes.
The Movie Drop off point: The hover car race scenes is WAY, WAY to long. In "Jedi" we had the speeder bike chase through the woods. That scene was spectacular cause it was in the midst of a fight with the Storm troopers. It was amazing cause we never say a great blue screen chase like that. So nearly 20 years later I guess George decided he wanted to take that to the next level. But Jake Lloyd as Anakin is not a good actor, sadly its tough role to be part of when so many fans are so crazy into the Star Wars franchise. So when the driving scene finally ended I felt like i just watched the Daytona 500, I hate Nascar. if I wanted to see cars drive, I'd sit in traffic on the 405. Only true fans feel this was a great movie, personally I think they reached to far.
Recommendation: Watch 3 minutes of each scene then hit the next chapter on the DVD remote then when you near the end sit and watch it. 3 out of 10.
Film Recommendation: Star Wars Episode 4,5, Hardware Wars
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