Star Wars Episode 1

Rating: 5/10 (3 November 2018)

That's what this felt like. From start to finish the assault of CGI and non-stop action never allows for moments to appreciate the scale of the conflict. The brief pauses in action that portrait Thanos help create a narrative that might be interesting if the next shot is not another scene that is hard to follow and simply drowned in computer generated shots.
Suspension of disbelief cannot occur as everything seems artificial and crammed together, almost as if fearing that the viewer might look away bored by the inadequacies of this movies. Oh, the Hulk Buster is in here again because everyone like that scene in Age of Ultron. No no, don't look away, look at the Wakandan army gather to fight off space demons. WAIT! are you bored? Look at another convoluted fighting scene where characters have no time to develop, we cannot really care about their motivations and it all feels .... crowded.
The movie has a few bright moments, but these seem to go by fast and at over 2 hours I wish I would be left with something more than... I kinda liked Thanos but I'm not sure about what else happened.
Living in a world where everything gets dissected before it even goes live makes all of this worse, with people crowding the doors of the theaters for the next installment in the Marvel universe, makes the ending even worse. It doesn't have any weight to it. It doesn't feel final or complete. I understand that with all the hype building for the next, but at this point I feel like a cow put on to be fattened by the next and the next and the next movie, all turning into an incoherent collection of flashes employing lens flare, busy cgi and the same Orange and Blue color poster...