rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1999
Directed by George Lucas; produced by Rick McCallum; written by George Lucas
Starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Pernilla August, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid, Ray Park, Ahmed Best, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Terence Stamp, Dominic West, Samuel L. Jackson, Sofia Coppola, Keira Knightley
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
There are three things I liked in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom
Menace'. The first is Liam Neeson as a character not present in the original
movie called Qui-Gon Jinn, the master of apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (played
by an empty Ewan McGregor). The second thing is Samual L. Jackson. Not
because he is so great but he is quite funny. I don't even know for sure if
I liked him the way it was meant. The third thing is every visual effect.
Yes, I admire and love the visuals in this movie. Because there is a nice
visual effect in every scene the movie is nice to watch as well.
I loved 'Star Wars', 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Return of the Jedi' and
was really looking forward for this. The way this is the set-up for the
three original movies is a little admirable also, but most of the things
have little to do with the three. The real dark side of Anakin is not really
there, Obi-Wan Kenobi is almost a nobody in this movie, Yodha is the same as
always. I have seen 'Episode II' as well and fortunately that was a lot
better and had a lot more to do with the three first movies. In my opinion
that movie was better for the beginning of the saga. This movie could be
told in some lines, written in yellow letters with a famous theme as
background music.