The movie is all light sabers, stupid aliens, and inconsequential plots.

Rating: 4/10 (3 April 2001)

When I saw this movie at the theater I initially enjoyed it. I got swept up by the crowd and the light saber battles. Then I saw this movie again and it lost a lot of luster really fast. Now when you watch it, the film is very bland and not very entertaining at all. Other than a somewhat exciting opening scene and a very nice saber battle with the very pointless, but still cool in a way Darth Maul this movie is just a bunch of plot points that will quickly run its course and really has no impact beyond introducing a young Anakin to Obi Wan. The plot has some forces invading this planet we never heard of in the original series. This planet has a rather dumb looking princess and a very annoying race of amphibious creatures that as soon as I saw it I knew it would be the most annoying thing in the film. That is until they meet young Anakin Skywalker so I do believe we had a tie. The rest of the film is just pointless filler getting us to the somewhat enjoyable ending, well about one fourth of it was enjoyable anyway (the saber duel). In the meantime you have a pointless race where you just knew young Anakin was going to win, stupid cameos that make no sense (come on, Anakin making C-3PO, really?), and very bland leads in Liam Neeson as a guy who never existed in the original saga and Ewan as a even more impressively bland Kenobi. Yes, the acting is about as good as watching people in front of blue screens as everyone has no reaction to what they are supposed to be seeing. All this and it culminates with a battle with the creatures that are annoying and robots (I wish the robots won that one), a stupid action scene for the princess (basically an anything a guy can do a little girl can do too set of scenes), an annoying Anakin piloting a ship against the underdeveloped enemy, and one of the few things worth seeing a duel between the Jedi's and Darth Maul. Kind of a shame a movie this bad made as much as it did, but you put light sabers in a movie and name it Star Wars and it would probably easily make 100 million.